Re: glibc 2.1.91 (first test release for 2.2) (fwd)

[Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw>]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0800, Ping Yeh / Academia Sinica wrote:
> 
> Hi Tong-Han,
> 
>     I believe you must have received the following e-mail
> regarding the first test release of glibc 2.2.  By checking
> the TODO list on Drepper's page
> 
> 	 http://www.cygnus.com/~drepper/TODO.html,

Thank you very much!! Your mail is the first message I have got.

> I see that tree@basistech.com is working on 
> 
> 	"Fix/Complete the Big5 conversion modules. It currently
> 	 handles only the characters available also in Unicode 2.0.
> 	 It should be changed to support all of Unicode 3.0 and,
> 	 if possible, also the other characters by mapping into the
> 	 private area of UCS4."

This is the character set handling module (i.e., the iconv/gconv
module, see the article written by me and Platin I sent to you),
which will be related to zh_TW.Big5 locale, but it do different
things. I would be very glad to learn this news. Although we still
have to work on our locale data and help to test.

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> Now a word about the changes:
> 
> * the db and db2 code is gone.  Since yet another interface change would
>   have been necessary (the upstream maintainer did it, not me) I decided
>   to drop it from glibc.  The only reason the code was there in the fist
>   place was the NSS code and we now worked around the problem of not
>   having the code in glibc.  The nss_db module us still built.

Hmmm .... xcin-2.5/libtabe need Berkeley DB2 library. If it has been
removed from the standard glibc (in glibc-2.1.x it is the standard),
it means that to install xcin-2.5/libtabe we need to install Berkeley DB2
first.

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I will been to test it in 2 or 3 days, depending on how fast I can fix
all (maybe the all the most serious) bugs in xcin-2.5.2-preX. Recently
many users have complained that xcin-2.5 behaved very strange under
KDE environment, so I also need to compile a completed KDE environment
for testing.


T.H.Hsieh
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