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author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2003-11-08 08:48:34 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2003-11-08 08:48:34 +0000 |
commit | 1528771f284f2d8867dc807e6b14e019c1ead9d6 (patch) | |
tree | b72f1557800c8824086e7578006ab8c2c1f742d5 /docs | |
parent | 2da24876a6ef26d87e68e7d1a61cf2104346e673 (diff) |
Update docs in preparation for release
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/uClibc_vs_SuSv3.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/uclibc.org/index.html | 97 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html | 57 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/uclibc.org/uClibc-apps.html | 923 |
5 files changed, 115 insertions, 974 deletions
diff --git a/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt b/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt index 9d29267e2..0b78bf970 100644 --- a/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt +++ b/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ functionality from uClibc is not a great loss. 6) uClibc does not support NSS (/lib/libnss_*), which allows glibc to easily support various methods of authentication and DNS resolution. uClibc only supports flat password files and shadow password files for storing -authentication information. +authentication information. If you need something more complex than this, +you can compile and install pam. 7) uClibc's libresolv is only a stub. Some, but not all of the functionality provided by glibc's libresolv is provided internal to uClibc. Other functions @@ -47,9 +48,9 @@ are not at all implemented. 8) libnsl provides support for Network Information Service (NIS) which was originally called "Yellow Pages" or "YP", which is an extension of RPC invented by Sun to share Unix password files over the network. I personally think NIS -is an evil abomination, and should be avoided. These days, using ldap is much +is an evil abomination and should be avoided. These days, using ldap is much more effective mechanism for doing the same thing. uClibc provides a stub -libnsl, but and has no actual support for Network Information Service (NIS). +libnsl, but has no actual support for Network Information Service (NIS). We therefore, also do not provide any of the headers files provided by glibc under /usr/include/rpcsvc. I am open to implementing ldap based password authentication, but I do not personally intend to implement it (since I have no @@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ encrypt_r, since these are not required by SuSv3. 13) uClibc directly uses the linux kernel's arch specific 'stuct stat'. -14) Add other things here as they come up...... +<other things as we notice them> diff --git a/docs/uClibc_vs_SuSv3.txt b/docs/uClibc_vs_SuSv3.txt index dd2d7748b..9d39d4b0e 100644 --- a/docs/uClibc_vs_SuSv3.txt +++ b/docs/uClibc_vs_SuSv3.txt @@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ and the requirements of the SuSv3. Functions listed by SuSv3 but not (yet) included in uClibc: fmtmsg <not implemented> - getgrgid_r <not implemented> - getgrnam_r <not implemented> + <others?> More to follow when we think of it... diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/index.html b/docs/uclibc.org/index.html index 263ca367d..ca16727ad 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/index.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/index.html @@ -116,6 +116,46 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives... <ul> <p> + <li> <b>8 November 2003, uClibc 0.9.22 Released</b> + <br> + + CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of + uClibc 0.9.22. This release has been cooking for a couple of months now + and is looking quite solid. We have done quite a lot of testing with this + release and things are looking good. And Erik has built Debian stable + (woody) for x86 with uClibc and it runs great. Expect that to be released + in the next few days. + + <p> + + This release is binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21 -- as long as you pick + compatible configuration options. Enabling or disabling things like + soft-float, locale, wide char support, or changing cpu optimizations are + all good examples of binary incompatible configuration options. If have + changed any of those sorts of options (or if you are not sure!) you will + need to recompile all your applications and libraries. + + <p> + + Updated uClibc development systems using uClibc 0.9.22 will be made + available within a few days. Meanwhile, we invite you to try out uClibc + with the latest <a href="http://ltp.sourceforge.net/">Linux Test Project + test suite</a> (you will need to apply a small <a + href="http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/sources/ltp-testsuite.patch?rev=1.3">patch</a>. + And also give the latest Perl and Python test suites a try as well. + If you find any bugs in uClibc, PLEASE let us know! + <p> + + As usual, the + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>, + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>, + and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.22.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a> + are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>. + + <p> + + + <p> <li> <b>30 September 2003, dev systems updated to uClibc 0.9.21+</b> <br> @@ -152,63 +192,6 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives... <p> - <p> - <li> <b>9 September 2003, uClibc 0.9.21 Released</b> - <br> - - CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of - uClibc 0.9.21. This release has been brewing for several months now, and - provides quite a lot of additional functionality and quite a few bug fixes - as well. Many people will be pleased that this release fixes the - "dlopen()'ing libraries that depend on libraries" problem. - - <p> - - The biggest thing in this release (and I do mean that literally) is that - uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support. Well, except for - wcsftime() and collating items in regex, which are not done yet. Adding - support for the default set of locales (169 UTF-8 locales and 144 locales - using other codesets) will enlarge uClibc by around 300k. Still, if you - need locale support, that is still much better than the roughly 30MB the - comparable set of locale date occupies with glibc. And you can of course - reduce the 300k by reducing the number of supported locales. - - <p> - - As usual, this release has many improvements, both large and small. At - this point, most applications that compile and work with glibc will also - compile and run with uClibc. Both Perl and Python pass all the tests in - their test suites (both with and without locale support enabled). We - invite you to grab a copy of the latest <a - href="http://ltp.sourceforge.net/"> Linux Test Project test suite</a> and - give uClibc some abuse. We are not yet perfect, but we are getting pretty - darn close. - - <p> - - This release is not binary compatible with earlier releases. Depending on - your configuration, you may actually still be binary compatible, but it - would be a good idea to recompile your applications when moving to the - uClibc 0.9.21 release. We are sorry about that, but we have never promised - to provide binary compatibility until we hit version 1.0. And even then, - if you change your uClibc configuration, you still still generally need to - recompile... - - <p> - - As usual, the - <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>, - <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>, - and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.21.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a> - are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>. - - <p> - - Updated uClibc development systems using uClibc 0.9.21 will be made - available within a few days. - <p> - - <p> <li> <b>Old News</b> <br> diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html b/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html index c7fcf0ed2..d7f0e6e42 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html @@ -53,6 +53,63 @@ <ul> <p> + <li> <b>9 September 2003, uClibc 0.9.21 Released</b> + <br> + + CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of + uClibc 0.9.21. This release has been brewing for several months now, and + provides quite a lot of additional functionality and quite a few bug fixes + as well. Many people will be pleased that this release fixes the + "dlopen()'ing libraries that depend on libraries" problem. + + <p> + + The biggest thing in this release (and I do mean that literally) is that + uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support. Well, except for + wcsftime() and collating items in regex, which are not done yet. Adding + support for the default set of locales (169 UTF-8 locales and 144 locales + using other codesets) will enlarge uClibc by around 300k. Still, if you + need locale support, that is still much better than the roughly 30MB the + comparable set of locale date occupies with glibc. And you can of course + reduce the 300k by reducing the number of supported locales. + + <p> + + As usual, this release has many improvements, both large and small. At + this point, most applications that compile and work with glibc will also + compile and run with uClibc. Both Perl and Python pass all the tests in + their test suites (both with and without locale support enabled). We + invite you to grab a copy of the latest <a + href="http://ltp.sourceforge.net/"> Linux Test Project test suite</a> and + give uClibc some abuse. We are not yet perfect, but we are getting pretty + darn close. + + <p> + + This release is not binary compatible with earlier releases. Depending on + your configuration, you may actually still be binary compatible, but it + would be a good idea to recompile your applications when moving to the + uClibc 0.9.21 release. We are sorry about that, but we have never promised + to provide binary compatibility until we hit version 1.0. And even then, + if you change your uClibc configuration, you still still generally need to + recompile... + + <p> + + As usual, the + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>, + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>, + and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.21.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a> + are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>. + + <p> + + Updated uClibc development systems using uClibc 0.9.21 will be made + available within a few days. + <p> + + + <p> <li> <b>30 June 2003, uClibc 0.9.20 Released</b> <br> diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/uClibc-apps.html b/docs/uclibc.org/uClibc-apps.html index 17db400d4..eacd9d577 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/uClibc-apps.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/uClibc-apps.html @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ <!-- Begin NOT Working List --> +<br> +When you are done, +<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">you can click here to return to the uClibc home page.</a> + + <TABLE WIDTH=95% CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=4 BORDER=1> <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> @@ -39,10 +44,11 @@ <p> The following applications are known to NOT work with uClibc. Please tell us if you know of any applications that fall into this category! </p> -<br> -When you are done, <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">you can click here to return -to the uClibc home page.</a> +<p> +NOTE: because basically everything works with uClibc these days, we +have removed the old "WORKING Application List" and from now on will +only be adding items to the NOT WORKING list, <!-- Not Working List --> @@ -56,12 +62,13 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a> <tr> <td> <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a> </td> <td> </td> - <td> Might actually work now that pthreads are working. Someone care to give it a try?</td> + <td> Might actually work now. Someone care to give it a try?</td> </tr> <tr> <td> Dunno....</a> </td> <td> </td> - <td> If you know of an application that <em>does not work</em> with uClibc, let me know. </td> + <td> If you know of an application that <em>does not work</em> with uClibc, + PLEASE let us know! </td> </tr> <!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> @@ -69,912 +76,6 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a> </center> <!-- End of NOT Working List --> -<!-- End of Table --> - -</TD></TR> -</TABLE> -</P> - - -<TABLE WIDTH=95% CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=4 BORDER=1> -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> - <A NAME="applications"> <BIG><B> - uClibc -- WORKING Application List - </font> - </A></B></BIG> -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> - -<p> The following applications are known to work with uClibc, either out of the -box or with a patch. Please tell us if you have experience with other versions -(especially with newer ones) or with programs not listed below! </p> - -<!-- Application List --> -<center> -<table width="100%" border=1> -<tr><th width="15%"> Program </th> - <th width="15%"> Version </th> - <th width="15%"> Needs Patch </th> - <th width="55%"> Comment </th> -</tr> - -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> Lots of other applications!</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> If you use an application with uClibc, let me know. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-0.60.5.tar.gz">busybox-0.60.5.tar.bz2</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Busybox is a small replacement for most major Unix tools. All - versions of BusyBox work with uClibc without changes. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://tinylogin.busybox.net">TinyLogin</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://tinylogin.busybox.net/downloads/snapshots/tinylogin-snapshot.tar.gz">tinylogin-snapshot.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> A small replacement for login, getty, passwd, adduser, deluser, etc. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">uDHCP</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/downloads/udhcp-0.9.8.tar.gz">udhcp-0.9.8.tar.gz</a></td> - <td> </td> - <td> A tiny but fully RFC compliant DHCP client and/or server. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.boa.org/">boa webserver</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://www.boa.org/boa-0.94.11.tar.gz">boa-0.94.11.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td>Boa is a very small, high performance web server.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://xfree.org/">XFree86</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> <a href="http://tuxscreen.net/wiki/view/Main/BuildingTinyX">TinyX + uClibc howto</a></td> - <td> XFree86 is the underlying software that is between the hardware and graphical user - interface (aka gui) that people see and use. It provides the standard windowing - system for most Linux systems.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/fileutils.html">GNU Fileutils</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz">fileutils-4.1.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2002-February/004806.html">patch information</td> - <td> The GNU File Utilities provide basic file-manipulation commands.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/shellutils/shellutils.html">GNU shellutils</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sh-utils/">sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The GNU Shell Utilities provide basic shell-manipulation commands. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/findutils.html">GNU findutils</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.1.tar.gz">findutils-4.1.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Provides find, locate, and xargs</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/textutils/textutils.html">GNU Textutils </a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/textutils/textutils-2.1.tar.gz">textutils-2.1.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The GNU Text Utilities provide basic text-manipulation commands. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/util-linux/">util-linux</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/aeb/linux-local/utils/util-linux/util-linux-2.11u.tar.gz">util-linux-2.11u.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> disable "ENABLE_WIDECHAR" in defines.h</td> - <td>A suite of essential utilities for any Linux system.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/grep.html">GNU grep</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grep/grep-2.4.2.tar.gz">grep-2.4.2.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/sed.html"></a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sed/sed-3.02.tar.gz">sed-3.02.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Sed (streams editor) is a tool to filter and modify text streams </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html">Gzip</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4a.tar.gz">gzip-1.2.4a.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program (version 1.3.3 is also OK) - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/">Bzip2</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz">bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality - data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the - best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst - being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib/">zlib</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz">zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> zlib is a very popular compression library that uses the same underlying methods as gzip. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html">GNU tar</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.tar.gz">tar-1.13.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The name `tar' comes from its original use; it stands for tape archiver. - It is used to store archives of data into a single file which can then be - stored and transported. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html">wget</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.8.2.tar.gz">wget-1.8.2.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/less/less.html">GNU less</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/less/less-358.tar.gz">less-358.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> less is a utility for viewing text files</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html">Bash shell</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-2.05a.tar.gz">bash-2.05a.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html">readline</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-4.2a.tar.gz">readline-4.2a.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The GNU Readline library provides applications with command line editing, - used by BASH as well as other things. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://texinfo.org/">GNU Texinfo </a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.0.tar.gz">texinfo-4.0.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/gawk.html">gawk</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.0.tar.gz">gawk-3.1.0.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The `awk' utility interprets a special-purpose programming language - that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~leitner/mawk/">mawk</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/languages/mawk/mawk1.3.3.tar.gz">mawk1.3.3.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Mike's awk implementation, which is smaller and faster then gawk - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.prosa.it/pub/gpm/gpm-1.19.6.lsm">gpm</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.prosa.it/pub/gpm/gpm-1.19.6.tar.gz">gpm-1.19.6.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The gpm (general purpose mouse) daemon tries to be a useful mouse - server for applications running on the Linux console. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.microwindows.org/">Microwindows</a> </td> - <td> CVS version</a></td> - <td> </td> - <td> Microwindows is a small windowing system similar to the X Window System. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/">MAD: MPEG Audio Decoder</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/mpeg/mad-0.13.0b.tar.gz">mad-0.13.0b</a></td> - <td> ./configure --disable-nls</td> - <td>MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1 - and the MPEG-2 extension to Lower Sampling Frequencies, as well as the - so-called MPEG 2.5 format. All three audio layers (Layer I, Layer II, and - Layer III a.k.a. MP3) are fully implemented. It also supports doing - fixed point math, so it works great on FPU-less chips like ARM. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/">lame mp3 encoder</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.91.tar.gz"></a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and - quality to rival all commercial competitors. </td> - -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/wavplay-1.4.lsm">wavplay</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/wavplay-1.4.tar.gz">wavplay-1.4.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Utilities to play and record WAV files </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.ohse.de/uwe/software/lrzsz.html">lrzsz</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://www.ohse.de/uwe/releases">lrzsz-0.12.20.tar.gz</a></td> - <td> </td> - <td> lrzsz is a unix communication package providing the XMODEM, YMODEM ZMODEM file transfer protocols. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/">pcmcia-cs</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pcmcia-cs/">pcmcia-cs-3.1.29.tar.gz</a></td> - <td> </td> - <td> A complete Linux PCMCIA support package. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="ftp://mirror.dc.us.telia.net/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/redhat-7.1-en/os/i386/SRPMS/newt-0.50.22-2.src.rpm">newt</a> </td> - <td> all versions</a></td> - <td> </td> - <td> Newt is a curses based text windowing library. Very useful for making console applications. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.html">ncurses</a> </td> - <td> 5.2</a></td> - <td> </td> - <td> ncurses is a standard terminal handling library. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.s-lang.org/">slang</a> </td> - <td> 1.4.5</a></td> - <td> </td> - <td> Slang does the same sort of thing that ncurses does -- and with a bit of wrapper code - can act as a full replacement. Very useful for making console applications (such as newt). - Because the full slang provides many other things, I personally use a massively cut down version - called <a href="ftp://busybox.net/slang-1.4.5-mini.tar.gz">minislang</a>, which also works great, - handles the ncurses type slang APIs only, and is just 80k compiled vs uClibc. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/">LSH</a> </td> - <td> 1.2.5 </td> - <td> <a href="http://www.schwebel.de/software/uClibc/index_en.html">patch</a> </td> - <td> A relatively small implementation of the SSH protocol. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.schwebel.de/software/uClibc/index_en.html">flash-0.9.5</a> </td> - <td> 0.9.5</td> - <td> </td> - <td> A secure menuing shell. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html">djbdns</a> </td> - <td> 1.0.5</td> - <td> </td> - <td> D. J. Bernstein's DNS implementation. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/">e2fsprogs</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.33.tar.gz">e2fsprogs-1.33.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td>Utilities to create and check ext3 and ext2 filesystems under Linux</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/">Linux-NTFS tools</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-ntfs/linux-ntfs-1.5.1.tar.gz">linux-ntfs-1.5.1.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td>Utilities to create and check NTFS filesystems under Linux</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools/dosfstools.lsm">dosfstools</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools/dosfstools-2.8.src.tar.gz">dosfstools-2.8.src.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td>Utilities to create and check MS-DOS filesystems under Linux</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/">LILO bootloader</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/lilo-22.1.tar.gz">lilo-22.1.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td>Lilo is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://bluez.sourceforge.net/">Bluez Bluetooth stack</a> </td> - <td> latest</td> - <td> </td> - <td> BlueZ is implementation of Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux. - Originally BlueZ was developed by Qualcomm Incorporated and then - became an Open Source project. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html">Linux wireless tools</a> </td> - <td> latest</td> - <td> </td> - <td> The Wireless Extension is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as the driver support Wireless Extension). Another advantage is these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the driver (or Linux). </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html">libpng</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/libpng-1.2.1.tar.gz">libpng-1.2.1.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The reference library implementing the Portable Network Graphics - format, a really nifty (and patent free) image format.<p>Passes 'make test' without problems.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.ijg.org/">libjpeg</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz">jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The Independent JPEG Group's implementation of the JPEG - image compression format. <p>Passes 'make test' just fine</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr><th width="15%"> Program </th> - <th width="15%"> Version </th> - <th width="15%"> Needs Patch </th> - <th width="55%"> Comment </th> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html">GCC</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-2.95.3.tar.gz">gcc-2.95.3.tar.gz</a> <br> - <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.1.1.tar.gz">gcc-3.1.1.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> c-compiler, c++-compiler compiler work fine, libio build currently fails </td> - <td> GCC is <em>the</em> compiler for GNU/Linux systems.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/">GNU binutils</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.13.tar.gz">binutils-2.13.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> Add CFLAGS+=-D__FORCE_NOGLIBC</td> - <td>The GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> -<td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html">GDB: The GNU Debugger </a></td> -<td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdb/gdb-5.1.tar.gz">gdb-5.1</a></td> -<td> By default gdbserver does not get built. Once gdb is built, you - can change gdb/gdbserver/Makefile to - use xxx-uclibc-gcc, and then run make to get gdbserver to build.</td> - <td> gdb allows you to debug applications. gdbserver allows you to debug - applications running on a remote system. </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html">GNU make</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/make-3.79.1.tar.gz">make-3.79.1.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other - non-source files of a program from the program's source files.</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html">GNU patch</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.5.4.tar.gz">patch-2.5.4.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> Patch takes a patch file (containing a difference listing produced by diff) and - applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. - </td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html">Diffutils</a> </td> - <td> <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.7.tar.gz">diffutils-2.7.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The diff command can show differences between files and directories</td> -</tr> -<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --> -<tr> - <td> <a href="http://home.hccnet.nl/d.ingamells/beautify.html">GNU indent</a> </td> - <td> <a href="http://home.hccnet.nl/d.ingamells/indent-2.2.7.tar.gz">indent-2.2.7.tar.gz</a> </td> - <td> </td> - <td> The indent program can be used to make code easier to read. It can - also convert from one style of writing C to another. - </td> -</tr> |