locales compiled on big endian architectures not shareable

locales compiled on big endian architectures not shareable

[Joel Klecker]

It seems that locales compiled on big endian architectures do not work on
little endian architectures, however locales compiled on a little endian
architecture work on both big and little endian.

In the case at hand, locales made on sparc-linux do not work on i386-linux,
the symptom is that setlocale() fails. I've also seen the same thing happen
when locales are compiled on a powerpc-linux system.
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Re: locales compiled on big endian architectures not shareable

[Ulrich Drepper]

Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:

> It seems that locales compiled on big endian architectures do not work on
> little endian architectures, however locales compiled on a little endian
> architecture work on both big and little endian.

I know there is this problem but I really cannot convince me it's
worth working on this since it's all completely rewritten for 2.2.

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Re: locales compiled on big endian architectures not shareable

[Joel Klecker]

At 00:13 -0800 2000-01-06, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:
>
>> It seems that locales compiled on big endian architectures do not work on
>> little endian architectures, however locales compiled on a little endian
>> architecture work on both big and little endian.
>
>I know there is this problem but I really cannot convince me it's
>worth working on this since it's all completely rewritten for 2.2.

Fair enough, however this ought to be noted as a known bug somewhere. I
assume this is not in issue in 2.2 then?
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Re: locales compiled on big endian architectures not shareable

[Ulrich Drepper]

Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:

> Fair enough, however this ought to be noted as a known bug somewhere.

The BUGS file is just for that.

> I assume this is not in issue in 2.2 then?

No.  The 2.2 locales are stored in /usr/lib.  I've removed tne endian
independence since this would make the file too large.

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