ready for the desktop? was: Re: [uClibc] Re: uClibc 0.9.22 released

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:46:11PM -0600, TxRx Lists wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> >That said, the traffic doesn't necessarily justify it yet.  Chick and egg 
> >problem.  I'm not quite sure how far away is considered "on topic" here...
> 
> I build my own task specific mini distro with uClibc (a short cut to 
> booting Freevo from a 32MB CF) and it really wasn't that hard - even 
> working around that nasty dynamic library bug. The only problems I 
> encounted compiling all kinds of things were locale and wordexp() 
> related, but those issues are mostly gone now, I bet. There's a guy with 
> a page up documenting his quest to compile Gentoo against uClibc :-)

As you say, the dlopen() bug remains.

One other stumbling block is gettext() support, which is on my todo
list for this month.  When building his uClibc-based debian system,
Erik had to hack a lot of packages that assumed gettext support was
part of libc.

Manuel