[PATCH] kbuild: replace LANG=C with LC_ALL=C

[Matthieu Baerts]

Hi,

Thank you for the patch!

On 24/04/2021 13:48, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> LANG gives a weak default to each LC_* in case it is not explicitly
> defined. LC_ALL, if set, overrides all other LC_* variables.
> 
>   LANG  <  LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, ...  <  LC_ALL
> 
> This is why documentation such as [1] suggests to set LC_ALL in build
> scripts to get the deterministic result.
> 
> LANG=C is not strong enough to override LC_* that may be set by end
> users.
> 
> [1]: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/locales/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
> ---
> 
>  arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper                          | 2 +-
>  scripts/nsdeps                                     | 2 +-
>  scripts/recordmcount.pl                            | 2 +-
>  scripts/setlocalversion                            | 2 +-
>  scripts/tags.sh                                    | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.sh | 2 +-

Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts at tessares.net> (mptcp)

Cheers,
Matt
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