Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > On Tuesday 26 May 2009 19:13:51 Bruno Haible wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > it's disabled explicitly because we dont want multibyte sucking up space >> > on a system that doesnt need it. there are a few packages (like zile) >> > which dont currently have a way of disabling the multibyte workarounds. >> >> Do you think it will take less space if each of these packages had a copy >> of some gnulib-provided multibyte + locale code linked in _statically_, >> than when uClibc has it linked in _once_, in a shared library? I don't >> think so. > > i never said that. the point was to fix these packages that require > multibyte > so that they dont have any multibyte cruft either.
I think that is a much better solution than making gnulib re-implement more of ANSI C multibyte stuff. And if you do that work, the application won't need MB_CUR_MAX, will it? So the problem is gone. /Simon
