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Natanael Copa wrote: |
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>Most of the problems I have been experiencing with gentoo embedded have |
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>been related to localization (gettext/libintl/libiconv). Here are some |
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>examples: |
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>'make menuconfig' and 'make oldconfig' does not work out of the box |
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>(looks like they are experiencing this on uclibc list too?) |
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>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.embedded/88 |
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>Some applications don't link: |
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>for example eject (Adding LDADD=-lintl is a workaround) |
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>Some applications don't compile (at least gcc does not in ~x86: |
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>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104237) |
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>Many ebuilds compile but has not proper RDEPEND. They often lack |
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>libiconv or gettext dependency. |
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>For example: |
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>gdb: readline libiconv |
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>eject: gettext |
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>mpd: libiconv |
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>mpc: libiconv |
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>cvs: gettext |
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>etc... |
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>Since this is a returning problem, I wonder if there is something we |
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>could do about it. |
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>Is a standard way to handle localization problems with uclibc? |
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>Should localization in uclibc be mentioned in developer docs? |
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>Should the ebuilds with dependency related problems be reported one by |
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>one or can we make a bulk? (ie try to find all affected ebuilds and |
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>report as single bug) |
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I've got that libiconv problem too using gentoo-embedded on a MIPS system. |
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I'm unable to compile PHP due to this bug... |
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If / when you find something out will you let us know? |
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I tried installing the separate libiconv from x86 but that isn't really |
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elegant and to make things worse, doesn't do the trick (for PHP at least) |
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Walter Goossens |
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