[oe] [RFC] Allow to limit generated binary locales to predefined list

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Jan,

Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 12:53:36 PM, you wrote:

>>   My intention was to do as little (pre/post)processing/interpretation
>> for GLIBC's SUPPORTED file as possible. Looking at what it has:
>>
>> aa_DJ.UTF-8 UTF-8
>> aa_DJ ISO-8859-1
>>
>>   It's clear why dot couldn't be used - it already appears in
>> SUPPORT's syntax. So, again, I don't try to interpret it in any way,
>> just provide means to specify expressions of that syntax using OE variable,
>> using simple substitution of newlines with spaces, and spaces with
>> commas.
> Ok, that makes sense.

> I don't really get why the SUPPORTED file postfixes all UTF-8 locales
> with ".UTF-8" as well as adds " UTF-8". That seems redundant
> information; it seems all UTF-8 locales are in the form of
> <locale>.UTF-8 UTF-8, while all other encodings simply use <locale>
> <encoding>... Anyway, since we don't control that syntax, let's indeed
> keep it simple and compatible.

  And I, after more consideration, that you of course was right, and
we should provide user-visible settings in well-known format, not
something internal. So, I (once again) checked that
glibc-package.bbclass of SUPPORTED's "a[.b] c" syntax just throws away
b, and uses a.c as designator. So, patch is updated:
http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1966

  Thanks for suggestion!

> I would like usage of the colon better than the comma though...

> Jan.


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