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Sean Parker wrote:
>
> Just curious to hear what future plans there are
> for BL 

When I did the first BL3, I thought about using uClibc 
instead of libc5.  uClibc was smaller, faster and 
more up-to-date.  However, at that time uClibc was 
in transition.  Major changes were in the works that 
would make uClibc incompatible with all earlier 
versions.  Moreover, there was little precompiled
software for uClibc.  So I went with libc5, for
which there are many precompiled Slackware packages.

> and what successes you've had with uClibc.

BL3 already has two significant uClibc components.  
busybox and Xvesa are both (static) uClibc.  
Neither of them would compile in libc5 so I did 
them in uClibc.  I haven't done any more uClibc 
stuff (until now) because I didn't want to waste 
time compiling binaries that would soon become 
incompatible with the new uClibc.  So I waited
for the new uClibc.  And waited.  And waited.

For nearly a year nothing happened.  I began to 
think that uClibc development had died.  Then 
suddenly two weeks ago the new uClibc appeared.  
Yes, it's incompatible with earlier versions -- 
many, many changes have been made.  But hopefully 
we are now close to a stable version.  

So I downloaded the new uClibc package and started
compiling stuff.  I'm gradually replacing BL3
binaries with uClibc versions.  So far so good.
I've also compiled a 2.2.26 kernel from the BL3
config and done some modules.  

I'm in no particular rush.  I check the uClibc
site nearly every day to see if this version is
going to stand the test of time.  If not, I'll
probably have to start over.
  
> I would have thought someone could have put
> together a working system with uClibc by now 
> but I haven't found one. 

For a while Puppy Linux had a uClibc version
but it was pulled shortly after release.  There
was also a uClibc version of Debian (but it had 
all the usual Debian bloat).  Neither of those 
were compatible with the new uClib.

Cheers,
Steven

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