Hi!
As some of you already know, libiconv and gettext (libintl) are now stubbed
in OpenWrt. What was known previously as libiconv is now renamed to
libiconv-full and gettext is renamed to gettext-full.
I can understand why it has been done. OpenWrt is tending towards ultimate
optimizations - and it includes ripping off, stubbing and whatever else
techniques to gain (sometimes questionable) speed/size improvement.
However, Ben NanoNote is not a router. I prefer thinking about Ben as a
desktop (kind of limited, though).
In recent months, Ben has added support for UTF-8 and i18n I/O in console
applications. OpenWrt had no such features, starting from uclibc and busybox
and ending with ncurses.
Now when libiconv and gettext are stubbed, a lot of packages depending on
libiconv and libintl might start having problems. They won't get built or
won't have features supported by that libraries.
OpenWrt developers realized that such stub would cause many problems and
began to "unstub" it by adding some features and now they call libiconv
"Tiny drop-in replacement for the GNU Character set conversion library".
It is supposed that those who want full versions of libiconv and gettext
will use libiconv-full and gettext-full packages.
Well, it is possible to do this for individual packages in openwrt-packages
git, but what about all other packages depending on libiconv or libintl from
openwrt feeds?
I'd like to know if there is a way to get the full versions back? Overriding
these libs from openwrt-packages doesn't work because libiconv and gettext
are in feeds themselves and not in base system.
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