[oe] [OE-core] State of libcs in OE-Core glibc/uclibc/musl

[Tim Orling]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Tim Orling <ticotimo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 08:42 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> >>
> >> > I would like to make a proposal for 2.1 release where
> >> >
> >> > 1. Drop kconfig support in glibc and we become inline with upstream
> >> > 2. Move musl support to OE-Core from meta-musl
> >> > 3. Drop uclibc or leave it in current broken state, I would like to
> >> > pull it out into a layer in meta-openembedded and we can leave the
> >> > core plumbing as it is in OE-Core
> >> > 4. Poky-tiny switches to use musl
> >>
> >
> > In the past we have had issues with iconv support when using musl. Any
> > experience good or bad with that?
>
> it has got a lot better in locale area off late. I dont know what
> issues you were facing though.
>

I am referring to this thread:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2014-March/018818.html

I just happened to come across that thread today. No personal experience
with musl yet.