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From: Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Can I get some interest in the uclibc-0.9.33.ebuild
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:04:24
Message-Id: 4F5538D1.1040308@wildgooses.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] Can I get some interest in the uclibc-0.9.33.ebuild by Ed W
1 Come on... you know you want to...
2
3 Can we get some testing of this please? An updated uclibc is a real
4 blocker for supporting embedded - can we have a push to get this into
5 portage please?
6
7 Cheers
8
9 Ed W
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13 On 01/03/2012 10:44, Ed W wrote:
14 > Hi, could all uclibc users take a peek at:
15 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308477
16 >
17 > I have bumped the ebuild to 0.9.33 and also added some extremely hacky
18 > patches to build iconv (and accidentally also locale) support. From
19 > my limited understanding this almost works as expected and seems very
20 > achievable to get to a fully working state. The iconv support is the
21 > main thing I wanted. Locales seem to be included as part of the same
22 > uclibc config switch, but don't add that much extra space - it would
23 > be nice to have them independently selectable though
24 >
25 > I need some help:
26 > - Testing the iconv stuff and working on the patches so they can go
27 > upstream
28 > - Fixing the ebuild to have an iconv flag to bring this stuff in a
29 > selectable way
30 > - Fixing the ebuild to allow selectable locales in some gentoo
31 > acceptable way?
32 > - Testing with hardened, ie gcc-4.5.3-r2 and the adjusted variable as
33 > per bug (this brings SSP support to gcc on uclibc)
34 > - Testing on as many other architectures than x86 as possible...
35 >
36 > The goal is to get this into tree as a masked ebuild as soon as
37 > possible. The rest of the tree is growing away from supporting uclibc
38 > because its the easiest option. However, if we can get 0.9.33 in good
39 > shape then we have a modern drop in libc replacement which supports
40 > modern hardened compilers, nptl and more - it's then feasible to start
41 > filing bugs to other packages to add small patches as appropriate. In
42 > particular having even partially working iconv support in uclibc would
43 > appear to reduce the number of packages with uclibc conditional
44 > compiles by a large chunk...
45 >
46 > Grateful for help getting this in shape
47 >
48 > Thanks
49 >
50 > Ed W
51 >

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] Can I get some interest in the uclibc-0.9.33.ebuild Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>