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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D27320

--- Comment #2 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #1)
> Are the locale-generation failures reported somewhere?

I was checking coverage ofmemmove test.

> The ignoring-the-error part is intentional, per:
>=20
> commit 6f99f280b00a30b8f0a89a4be1adb2bea41e2954
> Author: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> Date:   Fri Mar 7 03:31:41 2014 +0000
>=20
>     Count miscellaneous files built on host for testing as tests.
>=20=20=20=20=20
>     In <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00198.html> I
>     raised the question of counting miscellaneous dependencies of tests,
>     built on the host rather than the build system, as tests, so that when
>     test failures don't stop "make check" neither do those other builds on
>     the host, so that a flaky host doesn't stop "make check" from
>     producing a complete summary of test results.  Brooks supported that
>     idea in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-02/msg00301.html>.
>=20=20=20=20=20
>     This patch implements that change for all the examples I could find:
>     one message catalog in catgets/, locales in localedata/ and timezone
>     files in timezone/.

In this particular case, localedata/gen-locale.sh failed because of a bug
in memmove.  I don't think these kinds of failures should be ignored.

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