Re: [gentoo-embedded] glibc-2 status

[Natanael Copa <mlists@tanael.org>]

On man, 2006-01-02 at 16:21 +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, solar wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:03 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 13:02, solar wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 14:36 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > > > Anyone who know the status of glibc-2 in embedded?
> > > >
> > > > Assuming you mean glib2 it still remains at the same state.
> > > > This is a sore spot for some of us being that the only problem
> > > > moving forward is coming from another Gentoo developer.
> > > 
> > > considering said developer has been afk for quite a while, 
> > 
> > cough good.
> > 
> > > why dont i just go 
> > > ahead and include the patch in our ebuilds (especially since upstream has 
> > > accepted it)
> > 
> > I was unaware it was accepted for glib or even submitted for that
> > matter. But I like your idea.
> 
> The patch was only accepted for gtk+, but for glib2 I am sure it won't 
> ever be acceptable, because upstream the test for iconv() and nls support 
> will stop the build, if they are both not found.

Why cannot upstream glib2 support non iconv/nls?

> nls is no real problem, because it can be replaced by dummies, yvasilev 
> made a better patch for iconv() replacement.
> 
> I see the future rather by enabling iconv() in uClibc (but not the 
> nls/libintl/gettext stuff). That allows proper glib2 builds and everything 
> that depends on it.
> The nls part can be disabled/replaced by dummies in 
> glib-2/glib/gi18n[-lib].h, that will allow to solve all glib2 dependant 
> apps by:
> sed -i 's:libintl.h:gi18n.h:' <file>
> 
> I have built like this all of emerge gnome

wow... including firefox?


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