Re: musl 1.1.10 released

[Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 16:30:18 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:

> This release fixes regressions introduced as part of the dynamic
> linker bootstrap overhaul in musl 1.1.9, and adds several new features
> and improvements. Internal cleanup and optimizations have been made to
> the locale system. A fail-safe/allocation-free locale_t object for the
> C locale is now available via newlocale(), and the iconv_open function
> now supports "" and "CHAR" as aliases for the native (UTF-8) encoding.
> A new crt start file, rcrt1.o, is provided for producing static-linked
> position independent executables (PIE). Minor PIE-related
> arch-specific bugs, and a bug in the ungetc and ungetwc stdio
> functions which caused them to fail on files in EOF status, have also
> been fixed. 
> 
> http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-1.1.10.tar.gz
> http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-1.1.10.tar.gz.asc
> 
> Thanks as always to musl's Patreon release sponsors:
> 
> - The Midipix Project (midipix.org)
> - Hurricane Labs (hurricanelabs.com)
> - Justin Cormack
> 
> Further notes on upcoming development will follow soon.

There's relatively nasty regression in uselocale() breaking most X
applications (due to some libraries).

See patch at:
http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/main/musl/0001-fix-uselocale-locale_t-0-to-not-modify-locale.patch

/Timo