[Buildroot] Broken generation of locales

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Thierry Bultel,

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:09:12 +0200, Thierry Bultel wrote:

> When setting BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE, for instance like that:
> BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE="fr_FR en_US es_ES es_ES.ISO-8859-1 hu_HU"
> 
> nothing is generated.
> 
> next patch fixes that issue:
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 7997e3b..98afd7e 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -543,8 +543,8 @@ ifneq ($(GENERATE_LOCALE),)
>   target-generatelocales: host-localedef
>          $(Q)mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/locale/
>          $(Q)for locale in $(GENERATE_LOCALE) ; do \
> -               inputfile=`echo $${locale} | cut -f1 -d'.' -s` ; \
> -               charmap=`echo $${locale} | cut -f2 -d'.' -s` ; \
> +               inputfile=`echo $${locale} | cut -f1 -d'.'` ; \
> +               charmap=`echo $${locale} | cut -s -f2 -d'.'` ; \
>                  if test -z "$${charmap}" ; then \
>                          charmap="UTF-8" ; \
>                  fi ; \

This exactly reverts commit 8e2696eab6a781727c09408528678d4d29edd7a3
which was merged in August. I've added Arnout in Cc so that you can
discuss the issue together and decide who wins :-)

Thanks,

Thomas
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