Hi, could all uclibc users take a peek at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308477
I have bumped the ebuild to 0.9.33 and also added some extremely hacky
patches to build iconv (and accidentally also locale) support. From my
limited understanding this almost works as expected and seems very
achievable to get to a fully working state. The iconv support is the
main thing I wanted. Locales seem to be included as part of the same
uclibc config switch, but don't add that much extra space - it would be
nice to have them independently selectable though
I need some help:
- Testing the iconv stuff and working on the patches so they can go upstream
- Fixing the ebuild to have an iconv flag to bring this stuff in a
selectable way
- Fixing the ebuild to allow selectable locales in some gentoo
acceptable way?
- Testing with hardened, ie gcc-4.5.3-r2 and the adjusted variable as
per bug (this brings SSP support to gcc on uclibc)
- Testing on as many other architectures than x86 as possible...
The goal is to get this into tree as a masked ebuild as soon as
possible. The rest of the tree is growing away from supporting uclibc
because its the easiest option. However, if we can get 0.9.33 in good
shape then we have a modern drop in libc replacement which supports
modern hardened compilers, nptl and more - it's then feasible to start
filing bugs to other packages to add small patches as appropriate. In
particular having even partially working iconv support in uclibc would
appear to reduce the number of packages with uclibc conditional compiles
by a large chunk...
Grateful for help getting this in shape
Thanks
Ed W
