I've been a little despondent about the lib/locale.t failures ever since I became aware of them a few days ago.
But, tonight, I think I've found the correct way to deal with them.
Under make test there seems to be only the one failing test in lib/locale.t, but there's an additional 4 tests that fail if one runs ./perl -I./lib -T locale.t
There's no problem with those 5 tests on quadmath builds, irrespective of locale ... why is that ? ... it's because they're skipped on quadmath builds.

It then dawned upon me that if it's ok for quadmath builds to skip those tests, then it's ok for my patched approach to also skip them. (Like the quadmath builds, my approach also assigns NVs using the underlying C compiler via Perl_strtod.)
Having just modified lib/locale.t to skip those tests whenever Perl_strtod is defined, I find that all tests now pass !!

I just need to provide patches against current blead, and hope that I can get Karl and/or Jim to create another smoke-me branch for more testing.
If I can just get those patches into blead .....

Cheers,
Rob

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