[PATCH v12 0/6][BZ 10871] Month names in alternative grammatical case

[Khem Raj]

Hi Carlos

On 2/21/18 8:30 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 02/17/2018 11:50 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> In OpenEmbedded SDKs a glibc for SDK host is built along for some of
>> the native SDK to run uniformly across mutliple distributions. This
>> glibc is built with complocaledir=/usr/lib/locale in configparms
>> so that it can use the locales from the SDK host and we dont have to
>> ship 100+ Mb of localedata.
> 
> What you are doing is unsupported and relying on internal implementation
> details not to change.

understood that all along, was trying out my luck if there was any 
better solution, with the arrangements we had, we did not have to worry 
about what locale the end user was using.

> 
> Each new version of glibc is tied to the binary locale data that it produces
> and the same problem applies to static applications which will need to fall
> back on C/POSIX locales because they will be unable to load the newer
> format of locale data.
> 
>> What is recommended way forward ?
> 
> Provide a minimal locale-archive with just the languages you support, and
> that should only be ~3MiB per language.
> 

We never set a limit here, but I guess we now need to.


Thank you
-Khem