[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] webkit-gtk: Use glib as unicode backend to avoid browser crash

Zhai, Edwin edwin.zhai at intel.com
Fri Jun 1 00:56:59 UTC 2012


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:56:27PM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2012-05-30 10:40, Richard Purdie wrote:
> >
> >I've merged this however I'm not 100% happy with this as the final fix.
> >I'd ask that:
> >
> >a) The bug remains open (re-prioritised appropriately) about the
> >remaining issues that still exist in ICU
> >b) We add something to the ICU recipe which stops it building when the
> >endianess isn't correct (host matches target) so nobody can built it and
> >have it not work.
> 
> Why not accept my patch that provides a working dataset?  I doubt

Provideding a big binary in yocto website is not clean, but it should avoid 
potential side effect. 

> that you're ever going to get the ICU folks interested to the point
> of fixing this correctly and this solves the problem without the
> [IMO undesirable] side effect of using different libraries on

This is ultimate solution. I remember ICU community is not so active to do it.

> different architectures (for webkit-gtk).
> 
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edwin




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