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Hey, |
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I've been trying to get uclibc running with locale support. In particular, I |
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need iconv support for pulseaudio to work. |
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Since installing libiconv is supposedly a Bad Idea, I'm trying to get uclibc's |
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iconv support working. I'm trying this with uclibc 0.9.29 (using the ebuild from |
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the gentoo Bugzilla [1]). |
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My first attempt was to simply enable the iconv use flag. This also meant |
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removing iconv from /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/use.mask, but I suspect |
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(read: hope) that is was only there because there used to be no iconv support |
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in uclibc before (But apparently, there is also someone else who got something |
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similar to work [2]). |
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Anyway, having iconv enabled didn't work. It tries to generate locale data at |
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compiletime, which fails. It turns out this is not really supported by uclibc. |
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They strongly recommend to use pregenerated localedata. |
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So, I also enabled the pregen use flag. This resulted in an even quicker |
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error, during unpacking. From the ebuild (this holds for both the new 0.9.29 |
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and the older 0.9.28 ebuilds) I find the following. |
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When nls, pregen and x86 but not userlocales are set, |
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http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-locale-030818.tgz is added to SRC_URI |
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and is downloaded. This file is actualy available from that location and, |
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according to uclibc documentation, should be placed in extra/locale before |
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compilation. |
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Then, further on, when the iconv use flag is set, both |
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UCLIBC_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA and UCLIBC_DOWNLOAD_PREGENERATED_LOCALE_DATA |
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are enabled. The latter option seems irrelevant, since portage will download |
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the locale data for us. |
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However, to be able to use the downloaded locale data, it should still be |
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copied into the extra/locale directory before compilation. There is some code |
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which does something like that, but I can't see how it would ever work. In |
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particular, this code only works when iconv and pregen are set. Then, |
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depending on the userlocales setting, it copies |
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${DISTDIR}/${MY_P}-user-locale.tar.gz or |
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${DISTDIR}/${MY_P}-$(tc-arch)-full-locale.tar.gz to |
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extra/locale/uClibc-locale-030818.tgz |
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As far as I can see, neither ${MY_P}-user-locale.tar.gz nor |
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${MYP}-$(tc-arch)-full-locale.tar.gz will ever appearch in $DISTDIR, so these |
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copies will never work. Nor can I find anything that actually does something |
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with the uClibc-locale-030818.tgz that is downloaded. |
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Since I don't really know what is supposed to happen when, I'm at a loss a to |
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coding a fix. I'll probably see if I can whip up something that helps in my |
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case, which will probably be something like this: if iconv and pregen are set, |
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download uClibc-locale-030818.tgz and copy uClibc-locale-030818.tgz into |
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extra/locale, ignoring all the other copy thingies. |
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Any suggestions about how this is really supposed to work? |
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Gr. |
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Matthijs |
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[1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/process_bug.cgi |
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k2]: http://jeremy.geeo.net/p7120/ |
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