commit 0d822a016b631aef409df5805f58962fe5bbcdc5 Author: Alexandre Oliva Date: Mon Nov 17 22:00:58 2014 -0200 BZ #15969: search locale archive again after alias expansion If a locale alias is defined in locale.alias but not in an archive, and the referenced locale is only present in the archive, setlocale will fail if given the alias name. This is unintuitive. This patch fixes it, arranging for the locale archive to be searched again after alias expansion. for ChangeLog [BZ #15969] * locale/findlocale.c (_nl_find_locale): Retry archive search after alias expansion. Index: b/locale/findlocale.c =================================================================== --- a/locale/findlocale.c +++ b/locale/findlocale.c @@ -156,15 +156,26 @@ _nl_find_locale (const char *locale_path if (__builtin_expect (data != NULL, 1)) return data; + /* Nothing in the archive with the given name. Expanding it as + an alias and retry. */ + loc_name = (char *) _nl_expand_alias (*name); + if (loc_name != NULL) + { + data = _nl_load_locale_from_archive (category, &loc_name); + if (__builtin_expect (data != NULL, 1)) + return data; + } + /* Nothing in the archive. Set the default path to search below. */ locale_path = _nl_default_locale_path; locale_path_len = sizeof _nl_default_locale_path; } + else + /* We really have to load some data. First see whether the name is + an alias. Please note that this makes it impossible to have "C" + or "POSIX" as aliases. */ + loc_name = (char *) _nl_expand_alias (*name); - /* We really have to load some data. First see whether the name is - an alias. Please note that this makes it impossible to have "C" - or "POSIX" as aliases. */ - loc_name = (char *) _nl_expand_alias (*name); if (loc_name == NULL) /* It is no alias. */ loc_name = (char *) *name;