Changeset 94aa6621 for chapter06/glibc.xml

Timestamp:

12/26/2005 07:46:12 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Archaic <archaic@…>

Branches:

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Children:

b82f0c0

Parents:

5536f74

Message:

Reverting UTF-8 changes until everything is in place.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7236 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/glibc.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

chapter06/glibc.xml

@@ -48 +48 @@
 of achieving a clean build.</para>
 
-<para>The glibc-libidn tarball adds support for internationalized
-domain names (IDN) to Glibc. Note that many programs that
-support IDN require the full libidn library from
-<ulink url="http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/"/>, not this add-on.
-Unpack the tarball from within the Glibc source
-directory:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>tar jxf ../glibc-libidn-&glibc-version;.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>In the vi_VN.TCVN locale, bash enters infinite loop at startup. It is
-unknown whether this is a bash bug or a glibc problem. Disable installation
-of this locale in order to avoid the problem:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>sed -i '/vi_VN.TCVN/d' localedata/SUPPORTED</userinput></screen>
-
 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
 directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
@@ -72 +57 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
-    --disable-profile --enable-add-ons=nptl,libidn \
+    --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
     --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -144 +129 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
-
-<note><para>It is possible to create and install additional locales such as
-ru_RU.CP1251 by means of the <command>localedef</command> command, as
-explained in the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file in the Glibc source.</para></note>
-<!-- The Live CD patches the localedata/SUPPORTED file instead of running localedef -->
 
 <para>To save time, an alternative to running the
@@ -163 +143 @@
 for the tests to run successfully:</para>
 
-<!-- FIXME: recheck that "make localedata/install_locales" actually does the same -->
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
 localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
@@ -174 +153 @@
 localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
 localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
-localedef -i fr_FR.UTF-8 -f UTF-8 fr_FR
 localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
 localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>The first <command>localedef</command> above combines the
-<filename>/usr/share/i18n/locales/de_DE</filename> charset-independent
-locale definition with the
-<filename>/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ISO-8859-1.gz</filename> charmap definition
-and appends the result to the
-<filename>/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive</filename> file.</para>
+<para>Some locales installed by the <command>make
+localedata/install-locales</command> command above are not properly
+supported by some applications that are in the LFS and BLFS books.
+Because of the various problems that arise due to application
+programmers making assumptions that break in such locales, LFS should
+not be used in locales that utilize multibyte character sets
+(including UTF-8) or right-to-left writing order.  Numerous unofficial
+and unstable patches are required to fix these problems, and it has
+been decided by the LFS developers not to support such complex locales at this
+time.  This applies to the ja_JP and fa_IR locales as well&mdash;they have been
+installed only for GCC and Gettext tests to pass, and the
+<command>watch</command> program (part of the Procps package) does not work
+properly in them. Various attempts to circumvent these restrictions are
+documented in internationalization-related hints.</para>
+
 </sect2>