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From: Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Can I get some interest in the uclibc-0.9.33.ebuild
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:10:29
Message-Id: 4F4F52F6.8040200@wildgooses.com
1 Hi, could all uclibc users take a peek at:
2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308477
3
4 I have bumped the ebuild to 0.9.33 and also added some extremely hacky
5 patches to build iconv (and accidentally also locale) support. From my
6 limited understanding this almost works as expected and seems very
7 achievable to get to a fully working state. The iconv support is the
8 main thing I wanted. Locales seem to be included as part of the same
9 uclibc config switch, but don't add that much extra space - it would be
10 nice to have them independently selectable though
11
12 I need some help:
13 - Testing the iconv stuff and working on the patches so they can go upstream
14 - Fixing the ebuild to have an iconv flag to bring this stuff in a
15 selectable way
16 - Fixing the ebuild to allow selectable locales in some gentoo
17 acceptable way?
18 - Testing with hardened, ie gcc-4.5.3-r2 and the adjusted variable as
19 per bug (this brings SSP support to gcc on uclibc)
20 - Testing on as many other architectures than x86 as possible...
21
22 The goal is to get this into tree as a masked ebuild as soon as
23 possible. The rest of the tree is growing away from supporting uclibc
24 because its the easiest option. However, if we can get 0.9.33 in good
25 shape then we have a modern drop in libc replacement which supports
26 modern hardened compilers, nptl and more - it's then feasible to start
27 filing bugs to other packages to add small patches as appropriate. In
28 particular having even partially working iconv support in uclibc would
29 appear to reduce the number of packages with uclibc conditional compiles
30 by a large chunk...
31
32 Grateful for help getting this in shape
33
34 Thanks
35
36 Ed W

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