Hi,
In the glibc installation step in section 6.9, we say the following:
[quote]
The glibc-libidn tarball adds support for internationalized domain names (IDN)
to Glibc. Many programs that support IDN require the full libidn library, not
this add-on (see
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/libidn.html). Unpack the
tarball from within the Glibc source directory: [...]
[/quote]
Maybe we should add a comment about what kind of programs will expect the
libidn library instead of the glibc add-on. Anyway, I would like to propose a
debate about this, and I mean:
[quote]
Libidn can be built into GNU Libc to enable a new system-wide getaddrinfo()
flag for IDN processing.
[/quote]
The question to debate about is: can we avoid the installation of the
glibc-libidn package and integrate libidn instead? If it says it can be
compiled against glibc maybe we could have a 'more complete' system in the
sense the user wouldn't have to download it later to fulfill some program's
dependencies, but I don't know if this can be done in a straightforward way
(the glibc-libidn is like hundreds of kilobytes long while the full libidn
implementation goes over a megabyte in size, apart from other possible
considerations).
I haven't contacted Joseffson yet, but I think this could be an interesting
subject to debate.
What do you think?
Julio
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