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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2003-02-25 19:49:08 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2003-02-25 19:49:08 +0000
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Add a toolchain section. Mention Steven J. Hill's mips RPMs.
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<ul>
<p>
+ <li> <b>25 January 2003, dev system updates, arm image released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ A number of additional problems have been fixed and the arm build
+ is now, finally, compiling and working as expected. As such,
+ I have updated the <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">
+ i386 development system image</a>, the
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-powerpc.bz2">
+ powerpc development system image</a>, and I am also releasing
+ upon an unsuspecting world the brand new
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-arm.bz2">
+ arm development system image</a>!
+ Have fun!
+ <p>
+
+ All three development system images were compiled and built using the stock
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> system. These were also
+ built using the (about to be announced in a couple on minutes) uClibc
+ 0.9.17 release, so if you want to begin compiling and testing stuff with
+ uClibc, but you don't feel like spending the _hours_ it takes to download,
+ configure, and build your own uClibc based development system -- then you
+ may want to download these and give them a try. They each contain a 100 MB
+ ext2 filesystem with everything you need to begin compiling your own
+ applications. I have (at least minimally) tested each of them and verified
+ that the included gcc and g++ compilers produce working uClibc linked
+ executables.
+
+ <p>
+ Oh, and I have also have updated the uClibc/gcc toolchain builders, so
+ if you just want a simple uClibc/gcc toolchain,
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">one of these should work for you.</a>
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>10 January 2003, dev system updates, powerpc image released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ A few problems showed up in yesterday's development system release
+ (adduser was broken, gdb didn't work, libstdc++ shared libs were missing,
+ etc). So I've updated the <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">
+ i386 development system image</a> to fix these problems.
+ Also, the <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-powerpc.bz2">
+ powerpc development system image</a> has finally finished compiling
+ and is now released upon an unsuspecting world. Have fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>9 January 2003, uClibc development system released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has been working hard on <a
+ href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> recently, and is pleased to
+ offer a full stand-alone uClibc-only development system. This is an ext2
+ filesystem for i386 containing all the development software you need to
+ build your own uClibc applications. With bash, awk, make, gcc, g++,
+ autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh, gdb, strace, valgrind,
+ busybox, GNU coreutils, and more, this should have pretty much everything
+ you need to get started building your own applications linked against
+ uClibc. By using a uClibc only system, you can avoid all the painful
+ cross-configuration problems that have made using uClibc somewhat painful
+ in the past. A powerpc and an arm version are in progress. Expect them
+ to be released shortly....
+
+ <p>
+
+ The <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">
+ uClibc development system is an 18MB bzip2 compressed ext2 filesystem</a>,
+ so be prepared to wait if you are on a slow link. If you wish to have more
+ space, you can loop mount it and 'cp -a' the contents to their own
+ partition, or do what I did... <EM>WARNING, the following can be very
+ dangerous. Please be sure you know what you are doing before trying this.
+ I am not responsible if you lose all your important data.</EM>I had a spare
+ hard drive (in my case /dev/hdg but you'll want to adapt this to your own
+ needs), so I partitioned it with a single ext2 partition filling the drive
+ (in my case /dev/hdg1). Then I ran:<PRE>
+ bzcat root_fs-i386.bz2 | dd of=/dev/hdg1
+ e2fsck -f /dev/hdg1
+ resize2fs -p /dev/hdg1</PRE>
+
+ which overwrote everything on /dev/hdg with the new uClibc devel system,
+ and then expanded the filesystem with the uClibc devel system till it
+ filled the whole drive.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
<li> <b>8 November 2002, uClibc 0.9.16 Released</b>
<br>