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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:13:31 +0900 From: Masanori Ogino <masanori.ogino@...il.com> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add `intl` to EMPTY_LIB_NAMES. 2016-03-11 13:58 GMT+09:00 Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:50:51PM +0900, OGINO Masanori wrote: >> It makes programs that depend on libintl work with musl. >> >> Signed-off-by: OGINO Masanori <masanori.ogino@...il.com> >> --- >> Makefile | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile >> index ec54880..394b32f 100644 >> --- a/Makefile >> +++ b/Makefile >> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ GENERIC_INCLUDES = $(wildcard $(srcdir)/arch/generic/bits/*.h) >> INCLUDES = $(wildcard $(srcdir)/include/*.h $(srcdir)/include/*/*.h) >> ALL_INCLUDES = $(sort $(INCLUDES:$(srcdir)/%=%) $(GENH:obj/%=%) $(ARCH_INCLUDES:$(srcdir)/arch/$(ARCH)/%=include/%) $(GENERIC_INCLUDES:$(srcdir)/arch/generic/%=include/%)) >> >> -EMPTY_LIB_NAMES = m rt pthread crypt util xnet resolv dl >> +EMPTY_LIB_NAMES = m rt pthread crypt util xnet resolv dl intl >> EMPTY_LIBS = $(EMPTY_LIB_NAMES:%=lib/lib%.a) >> CRT_LIBS = $(addprefix lib/,$(notdir $(CRT_OBJS))) >> STATIC_LIBS = lib/libc.a > > Sorry for not responding to this sooner. No problem. Thank you for the reply. > I think we need more information to know if this is a good idea. The other libs in > EMPTY_LIBS are standard names specified by POSIX, whereas libintl is a > GNU thing, and I think some distros are using GNU libintl alongside > musl (mainly for legacy reasons). Adding this might break things for > them. OK, I understood. I use Gentoo Linux (its musl userland uses musl's libintl) and found that a package failed to link to libintl with musl, so I sent the patch. The failure was actually a bug of the distro, though. > From what I remember, the core problem here is that the autoconf > tests for gettext wrongly detect that musl does not have a suitable > gettext (because they probe for glibc-internal symbols) and these > packages are trying to use an external GNU libintl instead. Perhaps > someone who's followed the issue closely could link to the old threads > on it, or bugtracker items? > > Rich Now I got them thanks to Google: http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/04/16/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/04/16/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/04/16/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/04/16/4 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46436 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-11/msg00015.html >From the last link: > According to the post linked from the above, the check seems to be there > to exclude incompatible implementations of gettext(), like Solaris 7 and > NetBSD: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2006-03/msg00011.html > > If musl's gettext implementation is compatible with GNU gettext, I guess > we could adjust the check to accept it. However, I have no idea which > symbols or macros can be used for the check. It would be helpful if > musl people could chime in and give us a hint. -- Masanori Ogino
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