Bug 649568

Summary:	profiles/default/linux/uclibc - remove libiconv/libintl
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx>
Component:	Profiles	Assignee:	uClibc project <uclibc>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Waldemar Brodkorb 2018-03-04 12:11:04 UTC

Hi,

with uClibc-ng 1.0.29 there is a stub implementation for libintl and gettext-tiny
(msgfmt, xgettext, ..) is included. The included minimal iconv implementation works fine for most of the packages and use-cases for small desktop systems.
Therefore I suggest to remove libintl/libiconv selection from the uclibc profile.

best regards
 Waldemar

Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2018-03-11 12:14:40 UTC

(In reply to Waldemar Brodkorb from comment #0)
> Hi,
> 
> with uClibc-ng 1.0.29 there is a stub implementation for libintl and
> gettext-tiny
> (msgfmt, xgettext, ..) is included. The included minimal iconv
> implementation works fine for most of the packages and use-cases for small
> desktop systems.
> Therefore I suggest to remove libintl/libiconv selection from the uclibc
> profile.
> 
> best regards
>  Waldemar

I'm still having some difficulties moving past uclibc-ng-1.0.26.  I tried to jump to 1.0.28 and got breakage wrt LD_LIBRARY_PATH in python:3.5 when trying to locate libgcc_s.so.  This was hit in a catalyst run and I had to backtrack to 1.0.26.  I'm going to try to settle down there again and then see if a jump to 1.0.29 breaks again.  If it does, I'll open a second bug and see if we can track that down.  Once on 1.0.29, we can drop the dependency on a standalone libintl.

Comment 2 David Seifert gentoo-dev

2022-01-02 10:23:21 UTC

uclibc support in Gentoo has been removed.