From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OKVej-0005HN-9R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:05:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9DF2E0DCB for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail1.nippynetworks.com [212.227.250.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC263E0D51 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 111BA674381 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:44:37 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nippynetworks.com Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9gBoYXMC+uhX for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:44:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from Ed-Wildgooses-MacBook-Pro.local (office.nippynetworks.com [94.194.201.187]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE771674389 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:44:36 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4C08E724.3080605@wildgooses.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:44:36 +0100 From: Ed W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] ref bug 297229 (virutal/libiconv vs sys-libs/uclibc[iconv] vs sys-devel/gcc) References: <4C078710.8060808@wildgooses.com> <1275606120.2949.3.camel@hangover> In-Reply-To: <1275606120.2949.3.camel@hangover> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dfcd623b-9e69-40dd-823e-c7a6a98da607 X-Archives-Hash: 491ad739300b0ed67e21a1f7743fe3ba On 04/06/2010 00:02, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:42 +0100, Ed W wrote: > [snip] > > >> I guess the real question here is what's the best way to build glib >> under uclibc? Recommendations please? >> >> > > mini-iconv.c Do you have a recipe for this? I have built a couple of things using mini-iconv.c now and it seems often to need a bit of hacking of config files more than anything else. I don't recall exactly what came up with glib, but it seemed like a much harder problem - from memory I believe it also had a required dependency on gettext that seemed unavoidable? (I gave up at that point I think?) > or fake it. > See now, I'm still missing the bigger picture here. I'm still not sure I understand why I don't just do this "properly" and either use iconv in uclibc or libiconv (and gettext)? Is there anything "bad" in having libiconv installed other than it becoming an accidently gcc dep? (And is that an unmanageable situation?) From the point of view of an ignoramous this seems like a real battle to avoid that which has bearable consequences to just give in and go with the flow? I must be missing something important though - how/where is this going to bite me in the future? I would like to try and figure this out now rather than suffer pain later... Thanks Ed W