[illumos-Developer] Arithmetic syntax error during build

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

I think it fails with any locale that's not installed properly.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Andrej Podzimek <andrej at podzimek.org> wrote:
>>> I get a lot of errors when building the latest ON. All of them start with
>>> an
>>> 'arithmetic syntax error' message:
>>>
>>> $ grep 'arithmetic syntax error' nightly.log
>>> common/scripts/crawlsrccomments.sh:  line_pos.x=0, line_pos.y++ :
>>> arithmetic
>>> syntax error
>>> common/scripts/filemutexdemo1.sh:  interval+=interval/10. : arithmetic
>>> syntax error
>>> common/scripts/gnaw.sh:  rs>  0.001 : arithmetic syntax error
>>> common/scripts/mandelbrotset1.sh:  stepwidth=0.1 : arithmetic syntax
>>> error
>>> common/scripts/numtree1.sh:  i=1.: arithmetic syntax error
>>> common/scripts/primenumbers1.sh:  max_pn=sqrt(num)+1. : arithmetic syntax
>>> error
>>> common/scripts/shircbot.sh:  (SECONDS-last_tick)>  5. : arithmetic syntax
>>> error
>>> common/scripts/shpiano.sh:  i<  ((sample_rate*duration)/2.): arithmetic
>>> syntax error
>>> common/scripts/termclock.sh:  angle=0.0: arithmetic syntax error
>>> common/scripts/crawlsrccomments.sh:  line_pos.x=0, line_pos.y++ :
>>> arithmetic
>>> syntax error
>>> common/scripts/filemutexdemo1.sh:  interval+=interval/10. : arithmetic
>>> syntax error
>>> common/scripts/gnaw.sh:  rs>  0.001 : arithmetic syntax error
>>> common/scripts/mandelbrotset1.sh:  stepwidth=0.1 : arithmetic syntax
>>> error
>>> common/scripts/numtree1.sh:  i=1.: arithmetic syntax error
>>> common/scripts/primenumbers1.sh:  max_pn=sqrt(num)+1. : arithmetic syntax
>>> error
>>> common/scripts/shircbot.sh:  (SECONDS-last_tick)>  5. : arithmetic syntax
>>> error
>>> common/scripts/shpiano.sh:  i<  ((sample_rate*duration)/2.): arithmetic
>>> syntax error
>>> common/scripts/termclock.sh:  angle=0.0: arithmetic syntax error
>>>
>>> Have I missed any important ksh updates? My previous build (two weeks
>>> ago)
>>> worked smoothly.
>>
>> Which locale do you use by default in your login and as system locale ?
>
> Thank you for your suggestion. This solved the problem. Compilation seems to
> work with the 'C' locale. It failed with my default 'cs_CZ.UTF-8' locale I
> had set two weeks ago.
>
> Andrej
>
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Aram Hăvărneanu