I wonder whether it's difficult to fix that. If I recall correctly most of the locale code in libc5 is from glibc anyway.
Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10 >-----Original Message----- >From: Erv Walter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 1:55 AM >To: Ben Pfaff >Cc: Die Adresse des Empfängers ist unbekannt. >Subject: Re: locale errors > > >Damn, pinepgp is screwing up auto signatures. Sorry. > >======================================================= > >> On 17 Jun 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > > >> > > > No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a >> > > > libc6 version of perl and everything should be fine again. >> > > >> > > This is, of course, a problem nearly as serious as that about utmp. >> > >> > Not really. This is an issue only with `unstable' (as far as I can >> > tell from the discussion), and `unstable' means exactly >> > that--everything might not work properly. >> > >That is true, but like the utmp problem, it's not going to go away >by itself. If we want to be able to have a system where both libc5 and >libc6 programs can coexist, we run into a problem with utmp. The 2 >libraries manipulate utmp differently, so if you run both libc5 and >libc6 binaries that try to manipulate utmp, it gets corrupted. > >Similarly, if we install libc5 locale files, libc6 programs can't use >them. If we install libc6 locale files, libc5 programs can't use >them. > >These are not trivial problems to fix, and they'll still be around in >3 months if nothing is done in the mean time. I am confident that >someone will come up with an elligant solution after the 1.3 release >settles down. > >Erv > >-- > PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP Fingerprint: A5 AB 25 7D 7A FD 4D FE BE 21 47 60 0C DC 67 9E > ____ > ----==-- _ / / \ > ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ / / /\ \ - [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /______\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \_________\/ > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
