Poking at PREBUILT_LOCALES...

Will Newton will.newton at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 20:18:56 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
<rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:45:40PM +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>>On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:32:12PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>>
>>>Does anybody still understand the uClibc locale stuff?  It _seems_ to be
>>>generating them well enough to build "gettext" under the resulting root
>>>filesystem, for what that's worth.  But I can't run the build on my gentoo
>>>server unless I want to install locale stuff on the host, and I'm trying to
>>>make this build portable and with minimal environmental dependencies so I'd
>>>probably rip locale stuff back out and just install libiconv natively on target
>>>to make Linux From Scratch happy (I already checked and that works) if I can't
>>>get it to build on a host that doesn't have locales already...
>>
>>The old tarball (that didn't work on a handful of machines -- don't
>>remember which ones but ISTR that it was an endian issue) can still be
>>found in http://uclibc.org/downloads/
>>Current setups would need the same files as that tarball. If you can
>>verify that
>
> [pressed send too fast, sorry]
> If you can verify that the wordsize or endianess does not matter then
> even better.

I found problems on our little endian 32bit systems that have more
stringent structure alignment than x86 (8 bytes). I didn't manage to
debug it any further because I can easily cope without locales.


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