[gentoo-embedded] future of uclibc stuff?

[Peter S. Mazinger]

Hello!

A non-dev trying to influence what happens... (and cross-posting again)

I know now, that uclibc works w/ gentoo, but only if all "players" are 
intending to support that.

Until the base system is not adapted trouble is sure w/ people 
intending to test the uclibc stuff, supporting them is quite a problem, 
because the produced stages are not gentoo-conform, so the glibc knowledge 
is not enough to create a full uclibc based system.

To have proper uclibc stages
sys-apps/portage; dev-util/catalyst; profiles/uclibc; scripts have to be 
adapted/corrected, and I see that these are not done (depend on people w/o 
uclibc interest)
Also there are problems w/ updates, the updated packages omit the uclibc 
stuff again, so I'll really tend to add the patches w/o use uclibc 
where possible (in most cases, they won't influence glibc usage)

So my questions:
1. When can portage be used for uclibc?
2. When will catalyst add the needed stuff?
3. When will python be updated (this is a generic problem, not only 
an uclibc one, I wonder how it worked for now since python-2.3)
4. When will the bootstrap scripts be updated?

The needed patches were already sent either to toolchain or 
gentoo-embedded, but I will provide them again if necessary.

Until the above changes are not done, an overlay tree has to be used.

Thanks, Peter

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