On 5/2/16 2:37 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 10:37:45AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote >> On 29/04/16 09:34 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 08:19:53PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote >>> >>>> 1) i support uclibc across many arches. see >>>> >>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc >>>> >>>> >>>> 2) you can file uclibc bugs and i will look at them. i know about that >>>> one and i've got the fix upstream. its going slowly because the bug was >>>> in libcheck which is bundled with gstreamer and so there's layers of >>>> backporting. see >>>> >>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577312 >>> >>> Thanks. For the time-being, I'll try building Pale Moon without HTML5 >>> video support. It may turn up other problems. >>> >> >> >> If you needed this for Firefox, grab 45.x or 46.0 since you can get >> HTML5 support from ffmpeg directly without needing gstreamer. > > Firefox's "Australis" can best be described as "the systemd of GUI's". > It's what drove me away from Firefox to Pale moon, in the first place, > and I'm not going back. > > I understand that Anthony is frustrated with uclibc, and is working on > replacing it with the uclibc-ng fork in the uclibc stage 3. I've run > into other issues, besides gstreamer, in uclibc. Hopefully, uclibc-ng > will have fewer issues. For now, I'll simply wait until the uclibc-ng > stage 3 comes out. >
Yes, I am frustrated with uClibc and I'm just one package and a few stabilizations away from switching to uclibc-ng. The problem is that upstream is very far behind in patches, and even further behind in releases. So you submit a patch and you don't even know if it will apply cleanly because its in a queue of submissions that have not even hit git master/HEAD. Or you want to back port a fix to the 0.9.33 branch and there's a dozen other intermediate patches that have to be applied first. Since these patches really address other issues, you're cutting and pasting code. Its a mess. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA
