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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:30:31AM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > Instead of trading libc5 for libc6, I plan on trading 
> > libc5 for uclibc (Which is half the size of libc5 but 
> > does everything I need 
> 
> Are you aware that there is a Debian distribution
> (woody, I think)
> completely based on uClibc?

Never heard that. I run woody and it uses glibc2. Maybe
an experimental variant?

>  Since
> you are familiar with Debian, you might be able to
> use some parts of it.  However, it was based on an 
> earlier version of uClib, which is incompatible with 
> the current version.

Worth looking into. 

> And therein lies the problem with uClibc.  Since the
> earliest days of BL3, I have wanted to use uClibc as
> the base BL3 library.  However, the developers kept
> breaking compatibility and warned that the next version
> (which we are still waiting for) will probably break
> compatibility again.

Yeh. It's here. 0.9.28, not compatible with ....27.

> So yes, you can take the current uClibc and compile
> executables for it (that's what I did for the BL3
> busybox and Xvesa).  But, if you link them dynamically, 
> keep in mind that next week (or next year) there will 
> probably be a new version of uClibc that won't work 
> with your executables.

Then you just stick with the one you have, right?

It's looking like 0.9.27 will work for BL. Already has almost
everything BL has and I have had no problem compiling the apps
I've added to BL already on it.

Or you could  rebuild everything  :-(

Guess you could write a script that would do that. 

Lee

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