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Date:      Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:35:19 +0100
From:      Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org>
To:        <rflynn@acsalaska.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xlocale support (Was: Re: Zarafa port)
Message-ID:  <86f5029a8da18393296855b90ac9e876@bluelife.at>
In-Reply-To: <3942.46.129.107.107.1328577482.squirrel@mymail.acsalaska.net>
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On 07.02.2012 02:18, rflynn@acsalaska.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Thanks for starting to work on it! I've added a link from 
>> WantedPorts
>> to that
>> mail.
>
> Currently stuck on the absence of xlocale(3). Is there any chance 
> these
> get MFC'd to RELENG_9 and RELENG_8? Or should I try implementing them
> in platform*.cpp within Zarafa? The latter looks possible, yet not
> trivial (still have to figure out what it needs from libc_private.h).
> Also open to workarounds or ports that implement these interfaces.

It looks like xlocale support in current still has some problems so it
needs to mature a bit more before it gets MFCd.

Many projects have some fallback if xlocale.h does not exist and just
need a small patch to don't include xlocale.h on FreeBSD. An example
is the patch for multimedia/mlt:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/mlt/files/patch-src__framework__mlt_property.h?rev=1.1

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/



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