Re: [PATCH 1/1] webkit-gtk: Use glib as unicode backend to avoid browser crash

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2012-05-30 10:40, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 17:08 +0800, edwin.zhai@intel.com wrote:
>> From: Zhai Edwin<edwin.zhai@intel.com>
>>
>> webkit-gtk depends on ICU for the unicode, but ICU is not safe when build and
>> target system owns different endian. ICU's community is not responsive to make
>> a patch for this, so glib is used as work around here.
>>
>> [YOCTO #1570] got fixed
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin<edwin.zhai@intel.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_svn.bb |   10 +++++++++-
>>   1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> I've merged this however I'm not 100% happy with this as the final fix.
> I'd ask that:
>
> a) The bug remains open (re-prioritised appropriately) about the
> remaining issues that still exist in ICU
> b) We add something to the ICU recipe which stops it building when the
> endianess isn't correct (host matches target) so nobody can built it and
> have it not work.

Why not accept my patch that provides a working dataset?  I doubt
that you're ever going to get the ICU folks interested to the point
of fixing this correctly and this solves the problem without the
[IMO undesirable] side effect of using different libraries on
different architectures (for webkit-gtk).

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