[uClibc] Re: Query about uclinux/uclibc ABI and system tuple.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Jan 11 08:41:45 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 07 January 2004 08:09, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > And to be honest, wide char support and locale support can be bundled
> > together and called "i" for internationalization.  For distributing APIs,
> > either you have both or you have neither, the potential audience that
> > wants one but not the other is probably not worth distributing
> > precompiled binaries for. (Either your distro handles
> > internationalization, or it doesn't.)
>
> I think that having wide char support would be enough for the most, as I
> understand it, it has some minimal UTF-8 support built in (correct me if
> I am wrong), so we get some minimal locale support, I'll rather put it
> into all configs.
>
> Peter

Sounds good to me, but I'm not the guy to make that call.

What we may need is a "stable ABI FAQ", actually.

The EASY way is to say the desktop ABI is "make allyesconfig".  Bit of a cop 
out, of course... :)

Rob




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