On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 04:04:46PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote > On 5/2/16 2:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 10:37:45AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote > >> On 29/04/16 09:34 PM, [email protected] 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.
Let me know offline if/when you need a beta tester. I have QEMU and an ancient 32-bit-only Atom netbook that could really use a smaller libc. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
