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From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com, man-db-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: man-db 2.7.6.1: Test failures under musl libc
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 13:04:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170826120425.jlqfcwjuvvb7l3km@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5992359F.5010801@adelielinux.org>

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 06:43:27PM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote:
> We are creating a new Linux distribution based on the musl libc focused
> on security and reliability.  As such, we run test suites for all of our
> packaged software.  The man-db test suite seems to have numerous
> failures due to musl's iconv(3) (or more specifically, iconv_open(3))
> method not supporting //IGNORE suffixes for character sets.

man-db can't reasonably do without //IGNORE, certainly not if you want
reliability.  Can you try building man-db with GNU libiconv?  The build
system uses AM_ICONV already, so should have enough options to let you
do this.

(I'd take a patch to the build system to have it detect this situation
and emit an error earlier if //IGNORE isn't available.)

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-26 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-14 23:43 A. Wilcox
2017-08-14 23:55 ` Rich Felker
2017-08-15  0:02   ` A. Wilcox
2017-08-26 12:04 ` Colin Watson [this message]
2017-08-26 13:28   ` Rich Felker
2017-08-26 15:13     ` Colin Watson

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