Who is responsible for locale support?

Sean Kelley sean.sweng at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 00:45:07 UTC 2006


It seems to me that locale is a very important part of this global
embedded marketplace and the longer uclibc goes without good locale
support the less relevant it becomes.

Sean

On 3/13/06, Steven J. Hill <sjhill at realitydiluted.com> wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >
> > how is this a bug in uClibc ?  if locale support is disabled, then all locale
> > symbols should be disabled ... libstdc++ should follow suite
> >
> But it doesn't. Originally, the variable '__global_locale' was defined
> regardless of locale support. However, after it was changed to only be
> defined when locale support was enabled, no one apparently went back to
> see if it was possible to build a toolchain with locale support disabled.
> I guess I can thank Peter for yet again breaking things. My NPTL release
> is being delayed because of other people's sloppiness.
>
> -Steve
> _______________________________________________
> uClibc mailing list
> uClibc at uclibc.org
> http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
>


More information about the uClibc mailing list