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

> > > I was thinking of compiling my own shared lynx 2.8.6dev16 but the final
> > > release should be out eventually, as it has been two years since
> > > 2.8.5rel1. Should I compile against 2.2.5 so more BL users can use it?
>
> > You could try compiling it with 2.1 so that it would work with
> > BL2 and no libc upgrade. Or perhaps you want to try the
> > uClibc development system? You can get it at uclibc.org.
> Do you want to help me when I run into problems with it?
>
> > The resulting binary would be smaller than static glibc, and
> > not have the broken networking bug (I think it is only in certain
> > glibc versions), and work on BL3/1. You could then keep
> > the uClibc build system around for the next time that you need
> > a static binary.

I looked, and there was something about libcrypt not being fully 
functional.  Lynx uses it.  And I would have to download 21MB of .bz2 file 
and compile the static library uClibc.a (?).  I hope static libraries do 
not have dependencies.

I will investigate the glibc network bug.  Maybe it is fixed in 2.3.2 and 
I could compile statically against that.  Or maybe you want to tackle lynx 
and uClibc yourself.  How much smaller would the uClibc lynx be than the 
2MB static version I compiled?  (Which included openssl, ncurses, zlib, 
and libc).

> Can you explain more about that bug?  My static lynx worked with 2.2.5 
glibcso, I think also with 2.1.3, not online with 2.3.2 or BL3, but it works fine 
> with 2.3.2 in someone's shared version.  Is it the static glibc.a that 
> is the problem, and only works with a matching glibcso on the computer?
>
> > David
> >
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