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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Mr Christopher Rose wrote:
> > Will there be a way to "upgrade" from BL3.32
> > (which is running on my laptop) to BL4
>
> BL4 does not exist and may never exist.  I'm just
> having a play with uClibc and 2.2.26 to see if
> something worthwhile comes from it.
>
> > or would it be a case of fresh install.
>
> A uClibc version would involve new libraries
> and new binaries.  A fresh install is probably
> the way to go.

Would you this time provide binaries dynamically-compiled using uClibc and 
if so, could we add the uClibC library to BL3 (size?) if we just wanted to 
use your new binaries, while keeping libc5 so we could also use SW4.0 
packages?  And also use BL4 with a newer kernel (compiled using a 
modification of the Bl3 config) to work on newer hardware or older 
hardware such as my CD-burner that had a bug fixed in a recent 2.6? I 
think you said you compiled an experimental 2.4 kernel for Bl3 - how much 
larger was it?


> There's the rub.  With uClibc everything will have
> to be compiled from source (either by you or me or
> somebody else). There is no collection of pre-compiled
> uClibc packages (yet).

But any statically compiled package would work, such as those from 
dietlibc?

Is there some trick to compiling with uClibc, or won't it work with some 
source code?