[gentoo-user] We have had known workarounds for python:3 and icu in uclibc-ng for a few months but they havent yet been implemented

[Iván]

First im not sure if this belongs here or in -dev, posting here just in
case.

Second, i must say im not trying to be agressive. I aprecciate the
developers work, specially maintaining a side project.

Uclibc-ng, for some reason, cant read relative paths for LD_LIBRARY_PATH

I barely know about ebuilds and dont even know how to submit a patch. But
in python and icu bugtrackers you can find workarounds to both problems.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591586

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608312

For python one, you would need to remove PYTHON_SITEDIR from local vars
(line 268) and add in the next line

local -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:}$PWD

As for icu, we can declare the variable in the ebuild, this ought to be
enough.

export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${WORKDIR}/icu/source-*/lib:${WORKDIR}/icu/source-*/stubdata

Both these options wrapped under a if elibc=uclibc-ng obviously.