[Buildroot] [Question] Glibc 2.27+ build and localedef

Peter Seiderer ps.report at gmx.net
Tue Feb 5 17:33:06 UTC 2019


Hello Einar,

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 18:23:21 +0100, Einar Jón <tolvupostur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello guys
> 
> I just upgraded my buildroot from 2017.02 (glibc 2.23) to master
> (glibc 2.28), and I'm having trouble with setlocale.
> $ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
> 
> I think this commit is causing some issues with our old localedef:
> https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/58b1a7eaf9099f7db793ecf6718c43ff7f4ec0d4#diff-4ef3edca6b1476bee09d60d0af7e4d1b
> , and some missing fields in en_US locale are also triggering more
> warnings.So the file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive isn't working as
> it should.
> 
> The host localedef version we are using in buildroot is pretty old
> (eglibc 2.14.1, never bumped since 2012-05-09), but glibc is now at
> 2.28-69.
> 
> I tried to bypass the issue by building host-glibc (which needs
> host-linux-headers) instead of host-localedef, but that's opening a
> whole other can of worms.
> I can copy $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/localedef and
> $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/share/i18n to the target and build a valid
> locale-archive there, but I'd like this to work on the host too.
> 
> Is this a known issue, or is it just me?

Known issue, see e.g.:

[RFC v2] localedef: update to glibc-2.28 and various fixes ([1])

Regards,
Peter

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-December/237991.html

> --
> Relevant stuff:
> BR2_GCC_TARGET_MODE="arm"
> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC=y
> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC=y
> BR2_PACKAGE_GLIBC=y
> BR2_GCC_VERSION="7.3.0"
> BR2_ENDIAN="LITTLE"
> BR2_EXTRA_GCC_CONFIG_OPTIONS=""
> BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE=y
> BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_PURGE=y
> BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_WHITELIST="C en_US"
> BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8 en_US.ISO-8859-1"
> $ ./locale -a   # with  $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/locale
> C
> en_US.iso88591
> en_US.utf8
> POSIX
> $ file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
> /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive: locale archive 26 strings
> 
> --
> Regards
> Einar Jón
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