Most of the problems I have been experiencing with gentoo embedded have been related to localization (gettext/libintl/libiconv). Here are some examples:
'make menuconfig' and 'make oldconfig' does not work out of the box (looks like they are experiencing this on uclibc list too?) http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.embedded/88 Some applications don't link: for example eject (Adding LDADD=-lintl is a workaround) Some applications don't compile (at least gcc does not in ~x86: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104237) Many ebuilds compile but has not proper RDEPEND. They often lack libiconv or gettext dependency. For example: gdb: readline libiconv eject: gettext mpd: libiconv mpc: libiconv cvs: gettext etc... Since this is a returning problem, I wonder if there is something we could do about it. Is a standard way to handle localization problems with uclibc? Should localization in uclibc be mentioned in developer docs? Should the ebuilds with dependency related problems be reported one by one or can we make a bulk? (ie try to find all affected ebuilds and report as single bug) -- Natanael Copa -- [email protected] mailing list
