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From: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m@×××.net>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] glibc-2 status
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:17:42
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0601091714470.29241-100000@lnx.bridge.intra
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] glibc-2 status by Natanael Copa
1 On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Natanael Copa wrote:
2
3 > On man, 2006-01-02 at 16:21 +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
4 > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, solar wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:03 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 > > > > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 13:02, solar wrote:
8 > > > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 14:36 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
9 > > > > > > Anyone who know the status of glibc-2 in embedded?
10 > > > > >
11 > > > > > Assuming you mean glib2 it still remains at the same state.
12 > > > > > This is a sore spot for some of us being that the only problem
13 > > > > > moving forward is coming from another Gentoo developer.
14 > > > >
15 > > > > considering said developer has been afk for quite a while,
16 > > >
17 > > > cough good.
18 > > >
19 > > > > why dont i just go
20 > > > > ahead and include the patch in our ebuilds (especially since upstream has
21 > > > > accepted it)
22 > > >
23 > > > I was unaware it was accepted for glib or even submitted for that
24 > > > matter. But I like your idea.
25 > >
26 > > The patch was only accepted for gtk+, but for glib2 I am sure it won't
27 > > ever be acceptable, because upstream the test for iconv() and nls support
28 > > will stop the build, if they are both not found.
29 >
30 > Why cannot upstream glib2 support non iconv/nls?
31
32 w/o iconv it is not possible anymore (they removed the "tolerant" way in
33 glib2), nls would be no problem
34
35 >
36 > > nls is no real problem, because it can be replaced by dummies, yvasilev
37 > > made a better patch for iconv() replacement.
38 > >
39 > > I see the future rather by enabling iconv() in uClibc (but not the
40 > > nls/libintl/gettext stuff). That allows proper glib2 builds and everything
41 > > that depends on it.
42 > > The nls part can be disabled/replaced by dummies in
43 > > glib-2/glib/gi18n[-lib].h, that will allow to solve all glib2 dependant
44 > > apps by:
45 > > sed -i 's:libintl.h:gi18n.h:' <file>
46 > >
47 > > I have built like this all of emerge gnome
48 >
49 > wow... including firefox?
50
51 both mozilla/firefox
52
53 Peter
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