From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EtRt7-0003XP-1p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:46:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k02FiBMD028992; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:44:11 GMT Received: from mail47.e.nsc.no (mail47.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k02FiA7K029965 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:44:10 GMT Received: from mail.nor.wtbts.org ([213.234.126.131]) by mail47.nsc.no (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k02FjYZc003464 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:45:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.nor.wtbts.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538C03FA07 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:45:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.nor.wtbts.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29643-04 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:45:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from nc (unknown [192.168.65.211]) by mail.nor.wtbts.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8273FA06 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:45:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] glibc-2 status From: Natanael Copa To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:45:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1136216733.10878.111.camel@nc> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at wtbts.no X-Archives-Salt: 1a02b9ea-c49d-445f-9433-8a21555d1683 X-Archives-Hash: 5d887f9991553f8ad87983cc647066f9 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:' > > I have built like this all of emerge gnome wow... including firefox? -- Natanael Copa -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list