[OE-core] [PATCH] glibc: use the host locale archive in nativesdk builds

[Burton, Ross]

On 14 July 2016 at 19:58, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:

> Patching glibc to use the host system as a backup for the locales makes
> sense to
> me as well.  However it is definitely more work and may not be worth it...


Agreed and agreed, which is why I went with this patch.


> In the buildtools case, do any of the other components we ship actually
> have
> localized content?  If we're shipping message catalogs for non-english
> systems
> -- then we definitely need non-english locale to work.  But if we're only
> shipping english -- C.utf-8 might be enough.
>

The problem for buildtools shipping just C.UTF-8 is that the moment you
have a system that needs buildtools and use them, you're forced into using
C.UTF-8 for everything in that session unless you keep that terminal for
just bitbake invocations.  If you're like me and often run
git/emacs/meld/etc in the same terminal as bitbake and don't speak English
then your experience is going to suffer.

Ross
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