ready for the desktop? was: Re: [uClibc] Re: uClibc 0.9.22 released

Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. rogelio at smsglobal.net
Tue Nov 11 02:09:34 UTC 2003


I installed gnu gettext in my uclibc build myself but i end up with 
two libintl*.so. Is
that ok?

On 2003-11-11 09:03:00 +0800 Manuel Novoa III <mjn3 at codepoet.org> 
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:46:11PM -0600, TxRx Lists wrote:
>> Rob Landley wrote:
>> 
>>> That said, the traffic doesn't necessarily justify it yet.  Chick 
>>> and egg 
>>> >problem.  I'm not quite sure how far away is considered "on topic" 
>>> here...
>> 
>> I build my own task specific mini distro with uClibc (a short cut to 
>> booting Freevo from a 32MB CF) and it really wasn't that hard - even 
>> working around that nasty dynamic library bug. The only problems I 
>> encounted compiling all kinds of things were locale and wordexp() 
>> related, 
>> but those issues are mostly gone now, I bet. There's a guy with a 
>> page up 
>> documenting his quest to compile Gentoo against uClibc :-)
> 
> As you say, the dlopen() bug remains.
> 
> One other stumbling block is gettext() support, which is on my todo
> list for this month.  When building his uClibc-based debian system,
> Erik had to hack a lot of packages that assumed gettext support was
> part of libc.
> 
> Manuel
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