From 4378b735efba4a9de3cc9406a9492a823ff2fbf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos O'Donell Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:20:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Document static application consequenes of %OB/%Ob. --- NEWS | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 35f8535d0b..b1d23c16dc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -94,8 +94,23 @@ Major new features: be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already available on some BSD-derived operating systems. + This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications + to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales. + See notes below for other changes affecting compatibilty. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: +* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the + GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX + locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%ob", + support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale + data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be + recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some + distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications + may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the + builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to + fix this. + * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead. -- 2.11.4.GIT