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 1S4htA-0001a5-BA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:04:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB1A9E0774 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 00:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail1.nippynetworks.com [91.220.24.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B9DE06CF for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E993402DC for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:06:09 +0000 (GMT) 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 1BApcVo737HC for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Ed-Wildgooses-MacBook-Pro.local (unknown [212.69.38.73]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86D22340232 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4F5538D1.1040308@wildgooses.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:06:09 +0000 From: Ed W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 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] Can I get some interest in the uclibc-0.9.33.ebuild References: <4F4F52F6.8040200@wildgooses.com> In-Reply-To: <4F4F52F6.8040200@wildgooses.com> X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20120305220609227 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d61c4552-83ba-498c-8ae9-3f620970e70a X-Archives-Hash: 6cc3de4c66bb289e84cfebab89b92d67 Come on... you know you want to... Can we get some testing of this please? An updated uclibc is a real blocker for supporting embedded - can we have a push to get this into portage please? Cheers Ed W On 01/03/2012 10:44, Ed W wrote: > Hi, could all uclibc users take a peek at: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308477 > > I have bumped the ebuild to 0.9.33 and also added some extremely hacky > patches to build iconv (and accidentally also locale) support. From > my limited understanding this almost works as expected and seems very > achievable to get to a fully working state. The iconv support is the > main thing I wanted. Locales seem to be included as part of the same > uclibc config switch, but don't add that much extra space - it would > be nice to have them independently selectable though > > I need some help: > - Testing the iconv stuff and working on the patches so they can go > upstream > - Fixing the ebuild to have an iconv flag to bring this stuff in a > selectable way > - Fixing the ebuild to allow selectable locales in some gentoo > acceptable way? > - Testing with hardened, ie gcc-4.5.3-r2 and the adjusted variable as > per bug (this brings SSP support to gcc on uclibc) > - Testing on as many other architectures than x86 as possible... > > The goal is to get this into tree as a masked ebuild as soon as > possible. The rest of the tree is growing away from supporting uclibc > because its the easiest option. However, if we can get 0.9.33 in good > shape then we have a modern drop in libc replacement which supports > modern hardened compilers, nptl and more - it's then feasible to start > filing bugs to other packages to add small patches as appropriate. In > particular having even partially working iconv support in uclibc would > appear to reduce the number of packages with uclibc conditional > compiles by a large chunk... > > Grateful for help getting this in shape > > Thanks > > Ed W >