no libidn/ in glibc-2.9

[Matthew Burgess]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:46:16 +0100 (MET), Alexander Kozlov <akozlov at nada.kth.se> wrote:
>>> there is no libidn/ in glibc-2.9 release, contrary to the
>>> contents of Chap.6. It appears in gnu snapshots though.
>>
>> Could you be more specific please?  I can't see any reference to
>> libidn in
>>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/glibc.html
>> and a grep over the book sources only shows hits for commented
>> out
>> sections in chapter06/glibc.xml and chapter03/packages.xml.
> 
> You are right, libidn is not mentioned in the book, my fault.
> There is libidn/ directory in the snapshot source tree which is
> absent in glibc-2.9 release. Is this something to worry about?

No, I don't think so.  From the comment in the book source, most packages require the
libidn package from GNU (see BLFS for instructions), rather than Glibc's
implementation.  So, the fact that Glibc's libidn directory is missing is unlikely to
affect anything, I think.

Obviously, if anyone reports a specific problem with the Glibc's missing libidn,
we'll see how best to fix it up then.

Regards,

Matt.