From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/11843 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Colin Watson Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: man-db 2.7.6.1: Test failures under musl libc Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 13:04:26 +0100 Message-ID: <20170826120425.jlqfcwjuvvb7l3km@riva.ucam.org> References: <5992359F.5010801@adelielinux.org> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503749150 20150 195.159.176.226 (26 Aug 2017 12:05:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 12:05:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com, man-db-devel@nongnu.org To: "A. Wilcox" Original-X-From: musl-return-11856-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Aug 26 14:05:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dlZqJ-0004VV-SE for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 14:05:35 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 21956 invoked by uid 550); 26 Aug 2017 12:05:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 21602 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2017 12:04:53 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5992359F.5010801@adelielinux.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:11843 Archived-At: 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]