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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> Are there uclibc programs in BL3 other than busybox and Xvesa?

The entire BL3 foundation is statically compiled uClibc.
You can delete the /lib directory and BL3 will still
boot and provide the foundation utilities.

> Can links be compiled against uclibc?

It already is.  The links in BL3 is statically compiled
uClibc.  It needs no libraries and should work on BL2
or any other version of Linux.

> is it impossible to compile rxvt and xinit against 
> uclibc?  xli?  mgp? jwm

The problem is not uClibc, the fishhook is recompiling X
(which is very very big) to work on uClibc.  I spent many
days (weeks?) compiling and recompiling (which takes a 
very long time on an old PC).  Finally, I got X to fully
compile, but when I tested it, I got errors.  I suspect
at the heart of the problem is the provided uClibc root
filesystem, which expects a 2.4 kernel.  I tried compiling
my own set of uClibc libraries for a 2.2 kernel, but that
failed as well.  So I threw in the towel.

Cheers,
Steven