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On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 04:04:46PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote |
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> On 5/2/16 2:37 PM, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 10:37:45AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote |
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> >> On 29/04/16 09:34 PM, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> >>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 08:19:53PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote |
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> >>> |
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> >>>> 1) i support uclibc across many arches. see |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> 2) you can file uclibc bugs and i will look at them. i know about that |
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> >>>> one and i've got the fix upstream. its going slowly because the bug was |
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> >>>> in libcheck which is bundled with gstreamer and so there's layers of |
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> >>>> backporting. see |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577312 |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Thanks. For the time-being, I'll try building Pale Moon without HTML5 |
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> >>> video support. It may turn up other problems. |
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> >>> |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> If you needed this for Firefox, grab 45.x or 46.0 since you can get |
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> >> HTML5 support from ffmpeg directly without needing gstreamer. |
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> > |
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> > Firefox's "Australis" can best be described as "the systemd of GUI's". |
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> > It's what drove me away from Firefox to Pale moon, in the first place, |
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> > and I'm not going back. |
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> > |
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> > I understand that Anthony is frustrated with uclibc, and is working on |
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> > replacing it with the uclibc-ng fork in the uclibc stage 3. I've run |
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> > into other issues, besides gstreamer, in uclibc. Hopefully, uclibc-ng |
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> > will have fewer issues. For now, I'll simply wait until the uclibc-ng |
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> > stage 3 comes out. |
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> > |
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> Yes, I am frustrated with uClibc and I'm just one package and a few |
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> stabilizations away from switching to uclibc-ng. The problem is that |
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> upstream is very far behind in patches, and even further behind in |
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> releases. So you submit a patch and you don't even know if it will |
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> apply cleanly because its in a queue of submissions that have not even |
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> hit git master/HEAD. Or you want to back port a fix to the 0.9.33 |
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> branch and there's a dozen other intermediate patches that have to be |
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> applied first. Since these patches really address other issues, you're |
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> cutting and pasting code. Its a mess. |
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Let me know offline if/when you need a beta tester. I have QEMU and |
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an ancient 32-bit-only Atom netbook that could really use a smaller |
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libc. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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