On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, James Dio wrote:

> I had installed a full installation of Gentoo embedded on my laptop
> quite some time ago and had a lot of "issues" (problems) with X and
> getting certain things to compile including some Window Managers, is
> this something that is common thus making Gentoo embedded primarily for
> routers and small servers or was the problems just related to my
> "unique" configuration? I might add I knew a lot less about Gentoo at
> that time so it is quite possible it was user error, and I suspect it is
> but I wanted to ask before I venture onto another install :). 

there are indeed problems w/ X, especially iconv() and locale 
support missing from uclibc produce many of the problems.
Also some math funcs are missing.

It is not decided yet, how to handle iconv(), there are 3 ways:
a. use uclibc's version (maybe for USE=X)
b. use libiconv
c. use dummy replacement as in a glib patch (this does not allow real 
locale support)

the same for gettext:
d. use uclibc's version (USE=nls)
e. use gettext.

Currently I am using c. and am investigating a.

I have gotten working a working xorg-x11 though, using xfce4, but all the 
needed stuff won't build as of current portage tree.

Peter

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