Re: [gentoo-embedded] glibc-2 status

["Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m@gmx.net>]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Natanael Copa wrote:

> 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?

w/o iconv it is not possible anymore (they removed the "tolerant" way in 
glib2), nls would be no problem

> 
> > 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?

both mozilla/firefox

Peter

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