Rob van Dam wrote: > Brian Cheeseman wrote: > >> Hi all / Rob, >> >> Attached is a patch I have created to allow gettext to compile under >> uClibc in chapter 5. >> >> I would be interested in feedback from all of you as to your beliefs on >> whether we should use this patch or perhaps patch uClibc to allow it to >> work for all packages. Depending on the consensus of the group, I am >> more than happy to determine the patch to be applied to the uClibc >> package instead. >> >> I look forward to your thoughts. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Brian. >> > Hello Brian, > I have put back a backup from tools and tried your patch. It worked > perfectly. I am however no programmer so I can't say whats the best > approach to this problem. Imho its the best to fix gettext, and send a > bug report to uClibc. Trying to fix uClibc could lead to other problems. > > Did you come any further with the "Perl problem"? > > Rob >
Hi Rob, The issue with the gettext / uClibc incompatibility won't be limited to just gettext which is why I put forward the concept of making a small change to the uClibc package to fix the problem for good for all packages which rely on that particular part of the code. This patch could be submitted back to the uClibc project for inclusion in the mainstream codebase. I agree that fixing uClibc could lead to other problems although I feel that the risk is minimal so it should be safe to make this alteration. I've just inspected the code for uClibc and the required code is present in the source however it is commented out. I will attempt to identify why it is commented out and let you know. Still no luck on the Perl issue. I was hoping that others would have managed to build it and shed some light on the matter. For that matter I am assuming that because it is in the book it has been validated by the official team. Cheers, Brian. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
