--enable-clocale=gnu and enabling locales in crosstool-0.25

[Dan Kegel]

Stuart Hughes wrote:
> I was looking to enable full locale support in the crosstool toolchain
> build.  The idea was that these could be copied from the toolchain onto
> the target image to support locales.
> 
> First, to do this I changed the configure of glibc to have
> 'enable-add-ons' which should enable the locales (I think 0.27 has it
> this way already, see crosstool.sh).  Also I added 
> make localedata/install-locales install_root=${PREFIX}/${TARGET} 
> to the install section.

Sounds good.  I'll add that in, but comment it out with
a note encouraging people who want locale data to enable it.
Or does the locale data not take long to build?

> While doing this I noticed that glibc was configured with
> '--enable-clocale=gnu', with a comment
> 
> # The --enable-clocale=gnu is recommended by LFS; see
> http://bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411
> 
> 
> I took a look at this, but it seems that that option should be going to
> the configure of gcc, not glibc ??

Eeek.  Thanks.  I'll have a look at that.

> My questions are:
> ------------------
> 
> - Has anyone built full locales with crosstool and installed them onto a
> target.  Is what I'm trying to do valid ?

Sounds valid to me.

> - Should the '--enable-clocale=gnu' be moved from the configure section
> of glibc,  to the configure section of gcc ?

Erm, probably.

- Dan

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