[Buildroot] [PATCH] uclibc: deprecate locale support

[Waldemar Brodkorb]

The quality of the locale implementation in uClibc seems
to be bad. Recently a discussion on the uClibc mailinglist
showed that the uClibc maintainer has no time to fix
remaining issues in the locale implementation.
http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2015-June/049000.html

Because of the bad state of the code I would like to deprecate
it. I never used it myself and see no good reason why I would
need it for an embedded system.

I believe not many people are using it. For good working
locale support there is still GNU libc and musl.

Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at openadk.org>
---
 Config.in.legacy         |    6 ++++++
 package/uclibc/Config.in |    8 --------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index d86d585..1814acb 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ endif
 ###############################################################################
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2015.08"
 
+config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_LOCALE
+	bool "Toolchain locale/i18n setting removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  uClibc locale support have been removed.
+
 config BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NETWORK
 	bool "U-Boot custom network settings removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/uclibc/Config.in b/package/uclibc/Config.in
index 15a590f..03d7171 100644
--- a/package/uclibc/Config.in
+++ b/package/uclibc/Config.in
@@ -100,14 +100,6 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_WCHAR
 	  wide characters (i.e characters longer than 8 bits, needed
 	  for locale support).
 
-config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_LOCALE
-	bool "Enable toolchain locale/i18n support"
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_WCHAR
-	select BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE
-	help
-	  Enable this option if you want your toolchain to support
-	  localization and internationalization.
-
 choice
 	prompt "Thread library implementation"
 	default BR2_PTHREADS_NATIVE if BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_SUPPORTS_NPTL
-- 
1.7.10.4