Tom Lane:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>>> I think that means that that gettext implementation is not currently
>>> supportable. So either we revert our PRI* use except those two
>>> (unlikely), or those buildfarm members should disable NLS.
>
>> Yeah. My goal in mentioning the problem back when it was just a
>> problem in theory (we had no test, the Alpine packages disable nls
>> (perhaps it used to be *more* broken, if they did that before we used
>> PRI?)) was to try to see if someone closer to these musl distros
>> wanted to have a crack at fixing it, since it looks pretty close to
>> being usable. But now that it's a problem in practice, it's hard to
>> disagree with Peter's take. It could be reenabled any time it works
>> enough to pass the test.
>
> Fair enough. I've revised the test mechanism per discussion with
> Bryan Green, in hopes of being able to test on more BF animals than
> we could yesterday. But I won't put in an expected-file for this
> Alpine misbehavior.
Both alpine animals now have NLS disabled.
Best,
Wolfgang
