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Re: Consensus: Locale format may change from release to release?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 11:08:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: Consensus: Locale format may change from release to release?
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> so this direction seems to miss an edge case: static binaries. if locale
> data is incompatible, and we abort when trying to load incompatible data,
> then static binaries cannot safely use any locale functions.
It's in the same class as the nss interface: you must have the matching
dynamic libraries installed.
Andreas.
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