glibc bugs affecting Ethiopian
John, to enable the am_ET locale, we need a few glibc bugfixes from F8. Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer, says a backport would be quite invasive and highly recommends updating instead. Additionally, until now glibc wasn't forked in OLPC-2. I installed 2.6.90-17 and everything appears to work, but of course it would need more testing. So I propose we update glibc post Trial-3. If that's not acceptable, the alternatives I see are: 1) attempt a backport and fork glibc. That would give us a good excuse to enable the Geode optimizations too. 2) Leave Ethiopian as an unsopported language in FD1.0 and tell people to follow the procedure on the wiki to add it manually. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: glibc bugs affecting Ethiopian
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:46 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: John, to enable the am_ET locale, we need a few glibc bugfixes from F8. Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer, says a backport would be quite invasive and highly recommends updating instead. Additionally, until now glibc wasn't forked in OLPC-2. I installed 2.6.90-17 and everything appears to work, but of course it would need more testing. So I propose we update glibc post Trial-3. If that's not acceptable, the alternatives I see are: 1) attempt a backport and fork glibc. That would give us a good excuse to enable the Geode optimizations too. 2) Leave Ethiopian as an unsopported language in FD1.0 and tell people to follow the procedure on the wiki to add it manuall This is a business decision. How likely is a Ethiopian sale in the short term? Does it pay right now to get distracted by Ethiopian support (other than planning for the future) or concentrate more on the places we are shipping? Talk to Uli and find out if he knows of any interactions with other libraries. If the risk is low and the benefits high then go for it. However for FRS 1.0 I suspect it would be best to not make this change. -- John (J5) Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: glibc bugs affecting Ethiopian
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:58 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: How likely is a Ethiopian sale in the short term? Ethiopia is going to be one of the launch countries, unless negotiations between the Prodi government and Ethiopia somehow go awry. -walter In which case the decision is made and you should build and heavily test using the F8 glibc if there is no other way to fix the issues with Ethiopian support. On 10/8/07, John (J5) Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:46 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: John, to enable the am_ET locale, we need a few glibc bugfixes from F8. Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer, says a backport would be quite invasive and highly recommends updating instead. Additionally, until now glibc wasn't forked in OLPC-2. I installed 2.6.90-17 and everything appears to work, but of course it would need more testing. So I propose we update glibc post Trial-3. If that's not acceptable, the alternatives I see are: 1) attempt a backport and fork glibc. That would give us a good excuse to enable the Geode optimizations too. 2) Leave Ethiopian as an unsopported language in FD1.0 and tell people to follow the procedure on the wiki to add it manuall This is a business decision. How likely is a Ethiopian sale in the short term? Does it pay right now to get distracted by Ethiopian support (other than planning for the future) or concentrate more on the places we are shipping? Talk to Uli and find out if he knows of any interactions with other libraries. If the risk is low and the benefits high then go for it. However for FRS 1.0 I suspect it would be best to not make this change. -- John (J5) Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org -- John (J5) Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
