RE: locale errors
I wonder whether it's difficult to fix that. If I recall correctly most
of the locale code in libc5 is from glibc anyway.
Michael
--
Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH
meskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20
meskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen
Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44
Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Erv Walter [SMTP:edwalter@iname.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 1:55 AM
>To: Ben Pfaff
>Cc: Die Adresse des Empfängers ist unbekannt.
>Subject: Re: locale errors
>
>
>Damn, pinepgp is screwing up auto signatures. Sorry.
>
>=======================================================
>
>> On 17 Jun 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>> > kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>> > > meskes@topsystem.de (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in
>><[🔎] c=DE%a=_%p=topsystem%l=EINSTEIN-970617110158Z-203@einstein.topsystem.de>:
>> > >
>> > > > No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a
>> > > > libc6 version of perl and everything should be fine again.
>> > >
>> > > This is, of course, a problem nearly as serious as that about utmp.
>> >
>> > Not really. This is an issue only with `unstable' (as far as I can
>> > tell from the discussion), and `unstable' means exactly
>> > that--everything might not work properly.
>>
>
>That is true, but like the utmp problem, it's not going to go away
>by itself. If we want to be able to have a system where both libc5 and
>libc6 programs can coexist, we run into a problem with utmp. The 2
>libraries manipulate utmp differently, so if you run both libc5 and
>libc6 binaries that try to manipulate utmp, it gets corrupted.
>
>Similarly, if we install libc5 locale files, libc6 programs can't use
>them. If we install libc6 locale files, libc5 programs can't use
>them.
>
>These are not trivial problems to fix, and they'll still be around in
>3 months if nothing is done in the mean time. I am confident that
>someone will come up with an elligant solution after the 1.3 release
>settles down.
>
>Erv
>
>--
> PGP Public Key: finger walter@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu
> PGP Fingerprint: A5 AB 25 7D 7A FD 4D FE BE 21 47 60 0C DC 67 9E
> ____
> ----==-- _ / / \
> ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ / / /\ \ - edwalter@iname.com
> --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \ - walter@chem.wisc.edu
> -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /______\ \ \ - edwalter@students.wisc.edu
> \_________\/
>
>
>--
>TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
>debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org .
>Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
>
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: