Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] icu: Add knobs to generate a subset of ICU data

Khem Raj
2020-04-03T15:55:38Z

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:26 AM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 18:53 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > Recent versions of ICU (64+) provides a tool for configuring ICU
> > locale data file with finer granularity [1]
> >
> > Default generated size for libicudata.so.66.1 is ~27M, which is quite
> > large for embedded systems and all of them may not even need all
> > locale
> > data.
> >
> > This patch calls the icudata buildtool during configure on the
> > icudata
> > and utilizes a filter called 'filter.json` ( empty by default) to
> > create the data, default behavior should remain same but someone can
> > add a filter.json in own layer to configure this data, e.g.
>
> Nice idea, fails on ppc:
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/107/builds/411
>

yeah looking into it. Are there any other arch failures ?

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>