glibc bugs affecting Ethiopian

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:58 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> >  How likely is a Ethiopian sale in the short term? 
> 
> Ethiopia is going to be one of the launch countries, unless
> negotiations between the Prodi government and Ethiopia somehow go
> awry.
> 
> -walter

In which case the decision is made and you should build and heavily test
using the F8 glibc if there is no other way to fix the issues with
Ethiopian support.

> 
> On 10/8/07, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
>         On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:46 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>         > John,
>         >
>         > to enable the am_ET locale, we need a few glibc bugfixes
>         > from F8.  Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer, says a
>         > backport would be quite invasive and highly recommends 
>         > updating instead.  Additionally, until now glibc wasn't
>         > forked in OLPC-2.
>         >
>         > I installed 2.6.90-17 and everything appears to work, but
>         > of course it would need more testing.
>         > 
>         > So I propose we update glibc post Trial-3.  If that's not
>         > acceptable, the alternatives I see are:
>         >
>         > 1) attempt a backport and fork glibc.  That would give us a
>         >    good excuse to enable the Geode optimizations too. 
>         >
>         > 2) Leave Ethiopian as an unsopported language in FD1.0 and
>         >    tell people to follow the procedure on the wiki to add it
>         >    manuall
>         
>         
>         This is a business decision.  How likely is a Ethiopian sale
>         in the 
>         short term?  Does it pay right now to get distracted by
>         Ethiopian
>         support (other than planning for the future) or concentrate
>         more on the
>         places we are shipping?  Talk to Uli and find out if he knows
>         of any
>         interactions with other libraries.  If the risk is low and the
>         benefits 
>         high then go for it.  However for FRS 1.0 I suspect it would
>         be best to
>         not make this change.
>         
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