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-<h3>Frequently Asked Questions</h3>
-
-This is a collection of some of the most frequently asked questions
-about uClibc. Some of the questions even have answers. If you
-have additions to this FAQ document, we would love to add them,
-
-<ol>
-<li><a href="#naming">Why is it called uClibc?</a>
-<li><a href="#platforms">What platforms does uClibc run on?</a>
-<li><a href="#why">Why are you doing this? What's wrong with glibc?</a>
-<li><a href="#doesnt_suck">So uClibc is smaller then glibc? Doesn't that mean it
- completely sucks? How could it be smaller and not suck?</a>
-<li><a href="#why_should_i">Why should I use uClibc?</a>
-<li><a href="#licensing">If I use uClibc, do I have to release all my source code to the world for
- free? I want to create a closed source commercial application and I want
- to protect my intellectual property.</a>
-<li><a href="#development">Can I use it on my x86 development system?</a>
-<li><a href="#shared"> Does uClibc support shared libraries?</a>
-<li><a href="#compiling">How do I compile programs with uClibc?</a>
-<li><a href="#toolchain">Do I really need to build a uClibc toolchain?</a>
-<li><a href="#wrapper">What happened to the old toolchain wrapper?</a>
-<li><a href="#dev_systems">Is a pre-compiled uClibc development system available?</a>
-<li><a href="#bugs">I think I found a bug in uClibc! What should I do?!</a>
-<li><a href="#miscompile">My package builds fine but link fails with errors like "undefined reference
- to __fputc_unlocked", who do I blame?!</a>
-<li><a href="#gnu_malloc">My package builds fine but link fails with errors like "undefined reference
- to rpl_realloc / rpl_malloc", who do I blame?!</a>
-<li><a href="#job_control">Why do I keep getting "sh: can't access tty; job control
- turned off" errors? Why doesn't Control-C work within my shell?</a>
-<li><a href="#autoconf">How do I make autoconf and automake behave?</a>
-<li><a href="#ldd">When I run 'ldd' to get a list of the library dependencies
- for a uClibc binary, ldd segfaults! What should I do?</a>
-<li><a href="#timezones">Why does localtime() return times in UTC even when I have my timezone set?</a>
-<li><a href="#history">What is the history of uClibc? Where did it come from?</a>
-<li><a href="#demanding">I demand that you to add &lt;favorite feature&gt; right now! How come
- you don't answer all my questions on the mailing list instantly? I demand
- that you help me with all of my problems <em>Right Now</em>!</a>
-<li><a href="#helpme">I need help with uClibc! What should I do?</a>
-<li><a href="#contracts">I need you to add &lt;favorite feature&gt;! Are the uClibc developers willing to
- be paid in order to fix bugs or add in &lt;favorite feature&gt;? Are you willing to provide
- support contracts?</a>
-<li><a href="#support">I think you guys are great and I want to help support your work!</a>
-
-
-</ol>
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="naming">Why is it called uClibc?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- The letter 'u' is short for &#181; (the greek letter "mu"). &#181; is commonly used
- as the abbreviation for the word "micro". The capital "C" is short for
- "controller". So the name uClibc is sortof an abbreviation for "the
- microcontroller C library". For simplicity, uClibc is pronounced
- "yew-see-lib-see".
- <p>
- The name is partly historical, since uClibc was originally
- created to support <a href="http://www.uclinux.org">&#181;Clinux</a>, a port of
- Linux for MMU-less microcontrollers such as the Dragonball, Coldfire, and
- ARM7TDMI. These days, uClibc also works just fine on normal Linux systems
- (such as i386, ARM, and PowerPC), but we couldn't think of a better name.
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="platforms">What platforms does uClibc run on?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
-
- Currently uClibc runs on alpha, ARM, cris, i386, i960, h8300,
- m68k, mips/mipsel, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="why">Why are you doing this? What's wrong with glibc?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- Initially, the project began since the GNU C library lacked support for
- MMU-less systems, and because glibc is very large. The GNU C library is
- designed with a very different set of goals then uClibc. The GNU C library
- is a great piece of software, make no mistake. It is compliant with just
- about every standard ever created, and runs on just about every operating
- system and architecture -- no small task! But there is a price to be paid
- for that. It is quite a large library, and keeps getting larger with each
- release. It does not even pretend to target embedded systems. To quote
- from Ulrich Drepper, the maintainer of GNU libc: "...glibc is not the right
- thing for [an embedded OS]. It is designed as a native library (as opposed
- to embedded). Many functions (e.g., printf) contain functionality which is
- not wanted in embedded systems." 24 May 1999
-
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="doesnt_suck">So uClibc is smaller then glibc? Doesn't that mean it completely sucks?
-How could it be smaller and not suck?</a></h2>
-<p>
-<p>
-
- uClibc and glibc have different goals. glibc strives for features
- and performance, and is targeted for desktops and servers with
- (these days) lots of resources. It also strives for ABI stability.
-
- <p>
-
- On the other hand, the goal of uClibc is to provide as much functionality
- as possible in a small amount of space, and it is intended primarily for
- embedded use. It is also highly configurable in supported features, at the
- cost of ABI differences for different configurations. uClibc has been
- designed from the ground up to be a C library for embedded Linux. We don't
- need to worry about things like MS-DOS support, or BeOS, or AmigaOs any
- other system. This lets us cut out a lot of complexity and very carefully
- optimize for Linux.
-
- <p>
-
- In other cases, uClibc leaves certain features (such as full C99 Math
- library support, wordexp, IPV6, and RPC support) disabled by default.
- Those features can be enabled for people that need them, but are otherwise
- disabled to save space.
-
- <p>
-
- Some of the space savings in uClibc is obtained at the cost of performance,
- and some is due to sacrificing features. Much of it comes from aggressive
- refactoring of code to eliminate redundancy. In regards to locale data,
- elimination of redundant data storage resulted in substantial space
- savings. The result is a libc that currently includes the features needed
- by nearly all applications and yet is considerably smaller than glibc. To
- compare "apples to apples", if you take uClibc and compile in locale data
- for about 170 UTF-8 locales, then uClibc will take up about 570k. If you
- take glibc and add in locale data for the same 170 UTF-8 locales, you will
- need over 30MB!!!
-
- <p>
-
- The end result is a C library that will compile just about everything you
- throw at it, that looks like glibc to application programs when you
- compile, and is many times smaller.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="why_should_i">Why should I use uClibc?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- I don't know if you should use uClibc or not. It depends on your needs.
- If you are building an embedded Linux system and you are tight on space, then
- using uClibc instead if glibc may be a very good idea.
-
- <p>
-
- If you are building an embedded Linux system and you find that
- glibc is eating up too much space, you should consider using
- uClibc. If you are building a huge fileserver with 12 Terabytes
- of storage, then using glibc may make more sense. Unless, for
- example, that 12 Terabytes will be Network Attached Storage and
- you plan to burn Linux into the system's firmware...
-
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="licensing">If I use uClibc, do I have to release all my source code to the world for
- free? I want to create a closed source commercial application and I want
- to protect my intellectual property.</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- No, you do not need to give away your application source code just because
- you use uClibc and/or run on Linux. uClibc is licensed under the <a
- href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">Lesser GPL</a> license, just
- like the GNU C library (glibc). Please read this license, or have a lawyer
- read this license if you have any questions. Here is my brief summary...
- Using shared libraries makes complying with the license easy. You can
- distribute a closed source application which is linked with an unmodified
- uClibc shared library. In this case, you do not need to give away any
- source code for your application. Please consider sharing some of the
- money you make with us! :-)
- <p>
-
- If you make any changes to uClibc, and distribute uClibc or distribute any
- applications using your modified version, you must also distribute the
- source code for uClibc containing all of your changes.
- <p>
-
- If you distribute an application which has uClibc statically linked, you
- must also make your application available as an object file which can later
- be re-linked against updated versions of uClibc. This will (in theory)
- allow your customers to apply uClibc bug fixes to your application. You do
- not need to make the application object file available to everyone, just to
- those you gave the fully linked application.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="development">Can I use it on my x86 development system?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- Sure! In fact, this can be very nice during development. By
- installing uClibc on your development system, you can be sure that
- the code you are working on will actually run when you deploy it on
- your target system.
-
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="shared"> Does uClibc support shared libraries?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- Yes. uClibc has native shared library support on i386, ARM, mips,
- SH, CRIS, and PowerPC processors. Other architectures can use shared
- libraries but will need to use the GNU libc shared library loader.
- <p>
- Shared Libraries are not currently supported by uClibc on MMU-less systems.
- <a href="http://www.snapgear.com/">SnapGear</a> has implemented
- shared library support for MMU-less systems, however, so if you need MMU-less
- shared library support they may be able to help.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="compiling">How do I compile programs with uClibc?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- You will need to have your own uClibc toolchain. A toolchain consists
- of <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/">GNU binutils</a>,
- <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">the gcc compiler</a>, and uClibc, all
- built to produce binaries for your target system linked with uClibc.
- You can build your own native uClibc toolchain using the
- <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">uClibc buildroot system</a>.
-
- <p>
- To build your own uClibc toolchain, follow the following simple
- steps:
- <ul>
- <li> Point your web browser <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">here</a>,
- <li> Download of copy of buildroot
- <li> Unpack the tarball on your Linux system somewhere
- <li> Edit the Makefile as needed if you wish to change anything.
- <li> run 'unset CC'. Then run 'unset CXX'. Some Linux systems
- (i.e. Gentoo) set variables such as 'CC' in the system environment
- which really messes things up when cross compiling.
- <li> run 'make menuconfig'
- <li> Select the things you want to build. If you <em>only</em> want a
- toolchain, leave everything except the toolchain disabled.
- <li> save your buildroot configuration.
- <li> run 'make'
- <li> go eat a nice wholesome sandwich, drink a pop, call a friend,
- play a video game, and generally find something to do. While you
- are waiting, buildroot will download all the needed source code and
- then compile things up for you.
- <li> You should now have a shiny new toolchain, and maybe even a shiny
- new uClibc based root filesystem or development system, depending on
- the options you selected.
- </ul>
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="toolchain">Do I really need to build a uClibc toolchain?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- Yes, you really do need to build a toolchain to produce uClibc binaries.
- We used to provide a toolchain wrapper, but that has been removed due to
- numerous problems. The uClibc developers have gone to a lot of trouble
- to produce the
- <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">uClibc buildroot system</a>,
- which makes it easy to build your own uClibc toolchain and/or an initial
- uClibc based system.
-
- <p>
- Feel free to take the gcc and binutils patches we provide and use them in
- your own toolchain build system. If you choose to use your own toolchain
- build system, you will need to use these patches since the upstream GNU
- binutils and gcc releases do not currently have full support for building a
- uClibc toolchain.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="wrapper">What happened to the old toolchain wrapper?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- It is possible in some limited cases to re-use an existing glibc toolchain
- and subvert it into building uClibc binaries by using gcc commands such as
- "-nostdlib" and "-nostdinc". In fact, this used to be the recommended
- method for compiling programs with uClibc, and we made this easy to do by
- providing a uClibc toolchain wrapper, which attempted to automagically subvert
- an existing glibc toolchain.
-
- <p>
-
- This toolchain wrapper was removed from uClibc 0.9.22, and it will not be
- coming back. This is because it proved impossible to completely subvert an
- existing toolchain in many cases, and therefore proved to be a real
- maintainence burder. As uClibc became more capable, the many problems with
- re-using an existing glibc toolchain led us to conclude that the only safe
- and sane way to build uClibc binaries was to use a uClibc toolchain.
-
- <p>
-
- Some discussion on the reasoning behind this decision can be found here:
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2003-October/007315.html">
- http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2003-October/007315.html</a>
- in the uClibc mailing list archives.
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="dev_systems">Is a pre-compiled uClibc development system available?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- If you want to be <em>really</em> lazy and start using uClibc right away
- without needing to compile your own toolchain or anything, you can grab a
- pre-compiled uClibc development system. These are currently available for
-
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_arm.ext2.bz2">arm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_armeb.ext2.bz2">armeb</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_i386.ext2.bz2">i386</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_mips.ext2.bz2">mips</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_mipsel.ext2.bz2">mipsel</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_powerpc.ext2.bz2">powerpc</a>, and
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_sh4.ext2.bz2">sh4</a>.
-
- <p>
-
- These are bzip2 compressed ext2 filesystems containing all the development
- software you need to build your own uClibc applications, including: bash, awk,
- make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh, gdb,
- strace, busybox, GNU coreutils, GNU tar, GNU grep, etc.
-
- <p>
-
- Each of these uClibc development systems was created using
- <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a>.
-
- <p>
-
- These development systems should provide pretty much everything you need to get
- started building your own applications with uClibc. Once you download one of
- these systems, you can then boot into it, loop mount it, dd it to a spare drive
- and use a tool such as resize2fs to make it fill a partition... Whatever works
- best for you.
-
- <p>
- The quickest way to get started using a root_fs image (using the i386
- platform as an example) is:
- <ul>
- <li>Download root_fs_i386.bz2 from uclibc.org</li>
- <li>bunzip2 root_fs_i386.bz2</li>
- <li>mkdir root_fs</li>
- <li>su root</li>
- <li>mount -o loop root_fs_i386 root_fs</li>
- <li>chroot root_fs /bin/su -</li>
- </ul>
- Type "exit" to end the chroot session and return to the host system.
- <p>
-
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="bugs">I think I found a bug in uClibc! What should I do?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- If you find a problem with uClibc, please submit a detailed bug report to
- the uClibc mailing list at <a href="mailto:uclibc@mail.uclibc.org">
- uclibc@mail.uclibc.org</a>. Please do not send private email to Erik
- (the maintainer of uClibc) asking for private help unless you are planning
- on paying for consulting services. When we answer questions on the uClibc
- mailing list, it helps everyone, while private answers help only you...
-
- A well-written bug report should include an example that demonstrates the
- problem behaviors and enables anyone else to duplicate the bug on their own
- machine. For larger applications where it may prove difficult to provide
- an example application, we recommend that you use a tool such as gdb,
- strace, ltrace, and or valgrind to create a logfile showing the problem
- behavior.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="miscompile">My package builds fine but link fails with errors like
- "undefined reference to __fputc_unlocked", who do I blame?!</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- This error crops up when a build system mixes system headers (say glibc)
- with the target headers (say uClibc). Make sure your build system is not
- including extraneous include options (-I) and double check that it is using
- the correct compiler. Many build systems incorrectly force things like
- -I/usr/include or -I/usr/local/include or -I${prefix}/include (which usually
- just expands to -I/usr/include).
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="gnu_malloc">My package builds fine but link fails with errors like "undefined reference
- to rpl_realloc / rpl_malloc", who do I blame?!</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- This error crops up because you didn't enable MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT support.
- Configure scripts detect whether your libc supports "GNU malloc" features by
- seeing whether malloc(0) returns NULL (glibc malloc(0) will return a non NULL
- pointer). uClibc defaults to malloc(0) returning NULL so autoconf will assume
- malloc from your libc sucks and procede to try and compile the malloc replacement
- version in the gnulib addon. However, since not many packages include gnulib,
- they will fail to link with rpl_realloc / rpl_malloc errors. You could force
- configure to assume working behavior by exporting the variables 'jm_cv_func_working_malloc'
- (older autoconf) and 'ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull' (newer autoconf) to 'yes'
- before running `./configure`.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="job_control">Why do I keep getting "sh: can't access tty; job control
- turned off" errors? Why doesn't Control-C work within my shell?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- This isn't really a uClibc question, but I'll answer it here anyways. Job
- control will be turned off since your shell can not obtain a controlling
- terminal. This typically happens when you run your shell on /dev/console.
- The kernel will not provide a controlling terminal on the /dev/console
- device. Your should run your shell on a normal tty such as tty1 or ttyS0
- and everything will work perfectly. If you <em>REALLY</em> want your shell
- to run on /dev/console, then you can hack your kernel (if you are into that
- sortof thing) by changing drivers/char/tty_io.c to change the lines where
- it sets "noctty = 1;" to instead set it to "0". I recommend you instead
- run your shell on a real console...
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="autoconf">How do I make autoconf and automake behave?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- When you are cross-compiling, autoconf and automake are known to behave
- badly. This is because a large number of configure scripts (such as the
- one from openssh) try to actually execute applications that were cross
- compiled for your target system. This is bad, since of course these won't
- run, and this will also prevent your programs from compiling. You need to
- complain to the authors of these programs and ask them to fix their broken
- configure scripts.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="ldd">When I run 'ldd' to get a list of the library dependencies
- for a uClibc binary, ldd segfaults! What should I do?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
- Use the ldd that is built by uClibc, not your system's one. You can build
- uClibc'd ldd for your host system by going into the uClibc/utils/ directory
- in the uClibc source and running 'make ldd.host'.
- <p>
-
- When your system's ldd looks for library dependencies, it actually _runs_
- that program. This works fine -- usually. It generally will not work at
- all when you have been cross compiling (which is why ldd segfaults). The
- ldd program created by uClibc is cross platform and doesn't mind at all if
- it cannot execute the target program. If you use the uClibc version of
- 'ldd', it will do the right thing and produce correct results, even when it
- is used on cross compiled binaries.
-
-
-<hr />
-<p>
-<h2><a name="timezones">Why does localtime() return times in UTC even when I have my timezone set?</a></h2>
-<p>
-
-
- The uClibc time functions get timezone information from the TZ environment
- variable, as described in the Single Unix Specification Version 3. See
- <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html">
- http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html</a>
- for details on valid settings of TZ. For some additional examples, read
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2002-August/004010.html">
- http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2002-August/004010.html</a> in the uClibc
- mailing list archive.
- You can store the value of TZ in the file '/etc/TZ' and uClibc will then
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- uClibc started off as a fork on the <a
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- part of the <a href="http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">elks project</a>.
- The Linux-8086 C library was, apparently, largely written from scratch but
- also borrowed code from libc4, glibc, some Atari library code, with bits
- and pieces from about 20 other places.
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- I had for some time been despairing over the state of C libraries in Linux.
- GNU libc, the standard, is very poorly suited to embedded systems and has
- been getting bigger with every release. I spent quite a bit of time
- looking over the available Open Source C libraries that I knew of, and none
- of them really impressed me. I felt there was a real vacancy in the
- embedded Linux ecology. The closest library to what I imagined an embedded
- C library should be was uClibc. But it had a lot of problems too -- not
- the least of which was that, traditionally, uClibc required a complete
- source tree fork in order to support each and every new platform. This
- resulted in a big mess of twisty versions, all different. I decided to fix
- it and the result is what you see here.
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- <p>
-
- To start with, (with some initial help from <a
- href="http://www.uclinux.org/developers/">D. Jeff Dionne</a>), I ported
- uClibc to run on i386. I then grafted in the header files from glibc and
- cleaned up the resulting breakage. This (plus some additional work) has
- made it much less dependant on kernel headers, a large departure from its
- traditional tightly-coupled-to-the-kernel origins. I have written and/or
- rewritten a number of things that were missing or broken, and sometimes
- grafted in bits of code from the current glibc and libc5. I have also
- added a proper configuration system which allows you to easily select your
- target architecture and enable and disable various features. Many people
- have helped by testing, contributing ports to new architectures, and adding
- support for missing features.
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- In particular, around the end of 2000, Manuel Novoa III got involved with
- uClibc. One of his first contributions was the original gcc wrapper (which
- has since been removed). Since then, he has written virtually all of the
- current uClibc stdio, time, string, ctype, locale, and wchar-related code,
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- service. If you need to use private communication, or if you are serious
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-<h3>uClibc Dev Mailing List</h3>
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-uClibc has a <a href="/lists/uclibc/">mailing list</a> for discussion and
-development. You can subscribe by visiting
-<a href="http://uclibc.org/mailman/listinfo/uclibc">this page</a>. There is
-also an <a href="/lists/uclibc/">online archive</a>.
-Only subscribers to the uClibc mailing list are allowed to post to this list.
-</p>
-
-<h3>uClibc SVN Commits Mailing List</h3>
-<p>
-There is also a mailing list for <a href="/lists/uclibc-cvs/">svn commits</a>
-for people wishing to read the complete diff of each and every change to
-uClibc -- not for the faint of heart. Active developers can subscribe by
-visiting <a href="http://uclibc.org/mailman/listinfo/uclibc-cvs">this
-page</a>. The Subversion server is the only one permtted to post to this
-list. And yes, this list name uses the word 'cvs' even though we don't use
-that anymore ...
-</p>
-
-<h3>Search the List Archives</h3>
-Please search the mailing list archives before asking questions on the mailing
-list, since there is a good chance someone else has asked the same question
-before. Checking the archives is a great way to avoid annoying everyone on the
-list with frequently asked questions... You should also check the
-<a href="FAQ.html">list of Frequently Asked Questions</a>, since the answer
-you need may very well be listed there.
-
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-<ul>
-
- <li> <b>28 February 2007, uClibc 0.9.28.3 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- We're aiming for a new release-early-release-often record or something with
- the release of uClibc-0.9.28.3, which fixes a few more problems that tured
- up after last week's 0.9.28.2 release -- in particular a problem with weak
- threading symbols. As with last week's release, this is intended as a
- drop-in replacement for the long-term stable uClibc 0.9.28 release series.
-
- <br>
-
- Head to the <a href="/downloads/">downloads page</a> to pick up the
- <a href="/downloads/uClibc-0.9.28.3.tar.bz2">0.9.28.3 release</a>.
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>21 February 2007, uClibc 0.9.28.2 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- We're pleased to announce uClibc-0.9.28.2, with a few more bugfixes
- and minor cleanups for tried and true stable 0.9.28 series. As with
- uClibc 0.9.28.1, this is intended as a drop-in replacement for the
- stable uClibc 0.9.28 release.
-
- <br>
-
- Trundle over to the <a href="/downloads/">downloads page</a> to pick up the
- <a href="/downloads/uClibc-0.9.28.2.tar.bz2">0.9.28.2 release</a>.
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>28 January 2007, uClibc 0.9.28.1 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- Take one part uClibc-0.9.28 and many part bugfixes and you we're proud to
- announce uClibc-0.9.28.1. What sort of bugfixes you may wonder? The good
- kind of course. This marks the new state of development which matches so
- many other projects; while heavy development happens on the next major
- version, we'll push out some stable point releases.
-
- <br>
-
- Trundle over to the <a href="/downloads/">downloads page</a> to pick up the
- <a href="/downloads/uClibc-0.9.28.1.tar.bz2">0.9.28.1 release</a>.
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>17 August 2005, uClibc 0.9.28 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the release of uClibc 0.9.28.
- You are probably used to this by now, but this release is NOT binary
- compatible with uClibc 0.9.27 or any earlier release, so be prepared to
- recompile your software if you are still using an old version of uClibc.
-
- <p>
-
- Updated uClibc development systems built using uClibc 0.9.28, along
- with the <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">uClibc buildroot</a>
- and source code used to compile these development systems will be released
- later this evening, along with
- <a href="http://ltp.sourceforge.net/">Linux Test Project test suite</a>
- results demonstrating how uClibc is doing. Contributions of LTP test
- suite run results using uClibc are welcome...
-
- <p>
-
- As usual the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.28.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- is available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p>
-
- Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The
- developers of uClibc are busy people, and have only so much they can keep
- in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own
- name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report
- from getting lost, if you find a bug in uClibc, please use the
- <a href="http://bugs.uclibc.org/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a>
- to post all the gory details.
-
- <p>
-
- The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch
- is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch
- to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is
- properly considered.
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>Old News</b>
- <br>
- <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a>
- <p>
-
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-
-
- <li> <b>12 January 2005, uClibc 0.9.27 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the release of
- uClibc 0.9.27. Release highlights include a new stdio core,
- Linux 2.6.x support, a much improved shared library loader,
- support for several new architectures, and of course fixes for
- the usual pile of bugs.
-
- <p>
-
- Due primarily to the stdio changes, this release is NOT binary
- compatible with uClibc 0.9.26 or any earlier release, so be
- prepared to recompile your software if you are still using an
- old version of uClibc. Sorry for the pain...
-
- <p>
-
- Updated uClibc development systems using uClibc 0.9.27, along
- with the uClibc buildroot and source code used to compile these
- development systems, have also been released and are available
- from the uclibc.org downloads area.
-
- <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-0.9.27.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>20 April 2004, uClibc 0.9.26 based Debian uwoody</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) is pleased to announce the immediate
- availability of an x86 port of Debian woody compiled with uClibc 0.9.26.
- This was originally announced a couple of months ago, but has been updated
- a few times since to correct several small problems. If you want an easy
- way to start building your own uClibc based applications, this is it. This
- even supports building your own packages using 'apt-get', and using
- 'apt-get' to install already compiled packages from uclibc.org. You can
- find Erik's uwoody distribution <a
- href="http://www.uclibc.org/dists/">uwoody distribution here</a>. Assembling
- this Debian/uClibc system required a <em>lot</em> of work, so if you
- think this is the coolest thing since the invention of water, feel free to
- <a href="http://uclibc.org/FAQ.html#support">let us know</a>.
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>3 January 2004, uClibc 0.9.26 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is sorry to announce there was a pthread bug that
- slipped though our extensive testing and was only noticed a few hours after
- the previous release. As a result, we are now releasing uClibc 0.9.26
- which fixes this bug, and is otherwise identical to the previous release.
-
- <p>
-
- This release remains binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21-25, as long as
- you take care to avoid any configuraton changes that will break things.
- Please be aware we <b>will</b> break binary compatibilty in the upcoming
- 0.9.27 release to implement a few necessary changes we have been
- postponing. That will hopefully be the last ABI change before we freeze
- the ABI for the upcoming 1.0.x stable uClibc series.
-
- <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-0.9.26.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
-
-
- <li> <b>3 January 2004, uClibc 0.9.25 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.25. This contains many bug fixes and cleanups, and is
- recommended for anyone using uClibc. This release remains binary
- compatible with uClibc 0.9.21-24 (as long as you take care to avoid any
- configuraton changes that will break things). We <b>were</b> planning to break
- binary compatibilty in this release, but decided to hold those changes so
- we could push out a bugfix release.
-
- <p>
-
- Please be aware we <b>will</b> break binary compatibilty in the upcoming
- 0.9.26 release to implement a few changes we have been postponing. That
- will hopefully be the last ABI change before we freeze the ABI for the
- upcoming 1.0.x stable uClibc series.
-
- <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-0.9.25.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>19 December 2003, dev systems updated to uClibc 0.9.24</b>
- <br>
-
- Current uClibc development systems have been posted for
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mips.bz2">mips</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mipsel</a>, and
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_sh4.bz2">sh4</a>.
- The powerpc dev system mostly works, but there are still some
- problems with the shared library loader that have not yet been resolved.
- Details on what these are and how to use them can be found in the
- <a href="/FAQ.html#dev_systems">FAQ</a>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>15 December 2003, uClibc 0.9.24 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.24. This contains various minor updates and fixes for a few
- silly configuration problems. Arm users should notice a speed increase
- since some arm optimized string functions have been added. And several
- bugs have been fixed.
-
- <p>
-
- This release continues to be binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21 to 0.9.23
- -- as long as you pick compatible configuration options. The next release
- will <b>not</b> be binary compatible. We've been saving up a few needed
- changes that will be going into the next release, so while you will not
- need to recompile all your applications and libraries just yet, keep in
- mind we will have a flag day soon...
-
- <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-0.9.24.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- <li> <b>13 November 2003, uClibc 0.9.23 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.23. Of course, we are somewhat less than pleased that there
- were configuration problems in the previous release that made such it
- necessary to release .23 so quickly. Updated uClibc development systems
- using uClibc 0.9.23 are being built and will be posted shortly. And Erik
- has built Debian stable (woody) for x86 with uClibc and it runs great.
-
- <p>
-
- This release continues to be binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21 and
- 0.9.22 -- 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>
-
- 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-0.9.23.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
-
- <p>
-
-
- <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/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/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>
-
- The uClibc development systems for
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,
- have been updated to uClibc 0.9.21 (plus all the CVS updates up to
- today). Several problems have been fixed up,
- gcc has been updated to version 3.3.1, binutils was updated to 2.14.90.0.6, and
- <em>tada</em> everything finally works for cross compiling. These were
- all cross compiled (which really makes things faster since the older
- mipsel releases used to take 2 days to build!)
-
- <p>
- These are ~100 MB ext2 filesystems that run natively on the specified
- architecture. They contains all the development software you need to build
- your own uClibc applications, including bash, coreutils, findutils,
- diffutils, patch, sed, ed, flex, bison, file, gawk, tar, grep gdb, strace,
- make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh perl,
- and more. And of course, everything is dynamically 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. If you want to quickly get started with testing or using
- uClibc you should give these images a try. You can loop mount and them
- you can chroot into them, you can boot into with using user-mode Linux,
- and you can even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to make
- them fill the drive. Whatever works for you.
-
- <p> If you would like to build your own custom uClibc system, you can
- use <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/buildroot/">buildroot</a>, which is
- how these uClibc development systems were created.
- <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>30 June 2003, uClibc 0.9.20 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.20. This is primarily a bug-fix release. This release remains
- binary compatible with 0.9.18 and 0.9.19 (as long as you leave the
- new UCLIBC_HAS_TM_EXTENSIONS option disabled), so you don't have to recompile
- everything if you don't really feel like it.
- <p>
-
- This release has many small improvements. At this point, most applications
- that compile and work with glibc will also compile and run with uClibc.
- Perl and Python even pass all the tests in their test suites.
- <p>
-
- There is currently one notable exception. Applications that use dlopen()
- to load libraries that themselves depend on other libraries, may have weak
- symbols within those depended-upon libraries resolved incorrectly. This
- problem is currently being worked on. Other than that, everything seems
- to now be working as expected....
-
- <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-0.9.20.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>30 June 2003, dev systems updated to uClibc 0.9.20</b>
- <br>
-
- The uClibc development systems for
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,
- have been updated to uClibc 0.9.20. Several problems have been fixed up,
- gcc has been updated to version 3.3, and Perl 5.8.0 is now included.
- <p>
-
- This is a 150 MB ext2 filesystem that runs natively on the specified
- architecture. It contains all the development software you need to build
- your own uClibc applications, including bash, coreutils, findutils,
- diffutils, patch, sed, ed, flex, bison, file, gawk, tar, grep gdb, strace,
- make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh perl,
- and more. And of course, everything is dynamically 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. If you want to quickly get started with testing or using
- uClibc you should give these images a try. You can loop mount and then
- chroot into them, you can boot into them using user-mode Linux, and you can
- even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to make them fill the
- drive. Whatever works for you.
-
- <p> If you would like to build your own custom uClibc system, you can
- use <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/buildroot/">buildroot</a>, which is
- how the uClibc development systems were created.
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>6 March 2003, development system updates</b>
- <br>
-
- The uClibc development systems for
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,
- and now for the first time
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,
- have been updated to uClibc 0.9.19. Several smaller problems
- have also been fixed up.
- <p>
-
- This is an ext2 filesystem that runs natively on the specified
- architecture. It contains all the development software you need to build
- your own uClibc applications, including bash, coreutils, findutils,
- diffutils, patch, sed, ed, flex, bison, file, gawk, tar, grep gdb, strace,
- make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh and
- more. And of course, everything is dynamically 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. If you want to quickly get started with testing or using
- uClibc you should give these images a try. You can loop mount and
- then chroot into them, you can boot into them using user-mode Linux,
- you can even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to
- make them fill the drive. Whatever works best for you.
- <p>
-
- Have Fun.
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>3 March 2003, uClibc 0.9.19 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.19. This is once again primarily a bug-fix release. Several
- critical problems with system calls were fixed, the pthreads library was
- improved, debugging of applications using uClibc's pthreads library is
- now possible (requires gdb 5.3 or newer that is compiled using uClibc),
- and a number of other random fixes are included. This release retains
- binary compatibility with uClibc 0.9.18 (except for mips, which didn't
- work properly with uClibc 0.9.18 anyways). Updated development system
- images compiled with uClibc 0.9.19 will be released shortly.
-
- <p>
- As usual, the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a> and <a
- href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.19.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- <p>
-
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>17 February 2003, development system updates</b>
- <br>
-
- The uClibc development systems for
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>
- and
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- and
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>
- have been again updated. This time around a few broken symlinks
- (one preventing C++ code from compiling) have been fixed, several
- system calls related to uids and gid have been fixed, the powerpc
- system call mechanism has been updated, and GNU tar and GNU grep
- have been added. gcc, gcc+, ssh, etc are all still included and
- things remain binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.18.
- Have Fun.
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>12 February 2003, development system updates</b>
- <br>
-
- The uClibc development system has had a number of problems
- fixed, and has been updated for uClibc 0.9.18. The
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>
- and
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- and
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>
- devel systems are updated and ready to download and use.
- Have Fun.
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>12 February 2003, uClibc 0.9.18 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.18. This is primarily a bug-fix release, as there were a few
- directory handling problem that could cause application using uClibc 0.9.17
- to either segfault or lose the first character when reading directry names.
- Unfortunately, once again, this release is _NOT_ binary compatible with
- earlier uClibc releases. I _think this will be the last time (with the
- possible exception of some future changes to our locale support...)
-
- <p>
- As usual, the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.18.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- You might want to download uClibc from the closest
- <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
- Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
- http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
- to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.
- <p>
- <p>
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>25 January 2003, uClibc 0.9.17 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.17. The biggest piece of news with this release, thanks to
- Manuel Novoa's continuing hard work, is that we now have fully standards
- compliant locale support (optional of course). The support works nicely,
- (though configuring the locales you wish to support is still manual -- a
- task for the next release). Full locale data for over 300 locales adds
- approximately 250k. The collation data for all supported locales is
- roughly 180k. This may seem rather large to some -- but it is much smaller
- than the approximately 40 MB needed by Glibc to provide the same data. And
- if you don't need it, you can either disable locale support entirely, or
- enable a smaller set of locales.
-
- <p>
-
- This release also fixes <em>lots and lots</em> of bugs. The arm
- architecture support (I am embarrassed to note) was totally broken in the
- last release, but is now working as expected. A security problem (a
- buffer overflow in getlogin_r) was fixed. And there were architecture
- updates across the board (x86, arm, powerpc, cris, h8300, sparc, and mips).
- And of course, this release includes the usual pile of bug fixes. Many
- thanks for the large number of patches and fixes that were contributed!
-
- <p>
-
- Unfortunately, this release is not binary compatible with earlier uClibc
- releases. As noted as item 3 <a href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">here</a>,
- uClibc does not (yet) attempt to
- ensure binary compatibility across releases. We will eventually do that
- (once we reach the "1.0" release) but not yet. A few bugs turned up that
- needed to be fixed, and the only good way to fix them was to change some
- fundamental data structure sizes. As a result, this release is _NOT_
- binary compatible with earlier releases -- you will need to recompile your
- applications. The x86, arm, powerpc, and mips architectures (i.e. the
- systems Erik has available in his office for testing) have been tested and
- are known to work following this change. Other architectures <em>may</em>
- need additional updates. Sorry about that, but it had to be done.
-
- <p>
- As usual, the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- You might want to download uClibc from the closest
- <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
- Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
- http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
- to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.
- <p>
-
- <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.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">
- i386 development system image</a>, the
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/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.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/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/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/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/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/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.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">
- i386 development system image</a> to fix these problems.
- Also, the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/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/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/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.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/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>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.16. This release adds full support (including a native shared
- library loader) for the CRIS architecture, contributed by Tobias Anderberg.
- Stefan Allius contributed a number of patches to fix the initialization
- order for shared library global constructors and destructors as well as a
- large number of SuperH fixes and cleanups. uClibc now compiles with
- newer versions of gcc (i.e. RedHat 8.0). Thanks to Christian Michon,
- uClibc no longer requires perl to compile. Steven J. Hill fixed dlopen for
- mips. Several problems with pty and tty handling were fixed. Manuel Novoa
- added new support for an /etc/TZ file to globally set the system timezone,
- and fixed up a number of remaining wide char issues. Manuel is still hard
- at work on bringing full locale support (optional of course) to uClibc.
- And of course, this release includes the usual pile of bug fixes. Many thanks
- for the large number of patches and fixes that were contributed!
- <p>
-
- Erik and Manuel have been working on a
- <a href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">
- document describing some of the differences between uClibc and glibc.</a>
- It's not yet 100% complete, and it hasn't been nicely formatted yet. But
- it contains a lot of helpful information and is worth a look.
- <p>
-
- And finally, the the old uClibc configuration system has been completely
- removed (and there was much rejoicing). It was replaced with an entirely
- new system based on <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/">LinuxKernelConf</a>,
- which has since been included into Linux 2.5.45, so it looks like Erik made
- the right choice. Of course, those who have existing build systems using uClibc
- will need to make a few changes... We think the change is worth it.
- <p>
- As usual, the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.16.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- You might want to download uClibc from the closest
- <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
- Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
- http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
- to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.
- <p>
- Updated gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95 toolchains will be released shortly.
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>16 September 2002, gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95 toolchains released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released updated gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95
- uClibc toolchains. These toolchains build real gcc cross compilers (i.e.
- not just a wrapper) and create executables linked vs uClibc. The new
- gcc-3.2 provides uClibc support with the latest and greatest compiler
- available from the gcc team. The gcc-2.95 toolchain has been updated to
- the latest version of uClibc and now provides full C++ support, using the
- <a href="http://www.stlport.org/">STLport</a> standard C++ library.
- <p>
-
- This toolchain should make it easy for anyone to build uClibc based
- applications.
- <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/toolchain/"> Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
- Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on
- when you compile the toolchains. To build a toolchain, simply
- grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like
- the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat
- dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles. It takes
- about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.2 toolchain (w/C++ support)
- on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download
- source code).
- <p>
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>27 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.15 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability
- of uClibc 0.9.15. This release fixes a number of problems that turned
- up since the last release. The good news is that uClibc now
- passes all tests in the perl 5.8 and Python 2.2.1 test suites, both with
- and without pthreads. So without any further ado....
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.15.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- <p>
- Have fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>12 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.14 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is slightly less pleased then usual to announce the
- immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.14. This is, unfortunately, a bugfix
- release intended to fix the couple of dumb things that slipped into the
- previous release. Version 0.9.13 of uClibc would fail to compile when
- enabling both RPC and Pthreads. There was also a problem with RPC thread
- local storage (but noone noticed since it didn't compile ;-). Also, the
- thread locking in exit(), onexit() and atexit() was broken, and wasn't
- actually locking anything. This release also fixes uClibc's gcc wrapper
- to use crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o when compiling PIC code, fixing a subtle
- bug (that was much less subtle on powerpc). Finally, this release includes a
- few minor compile warning cleanups.
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.14.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- <p>
- Have fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>12 August 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.1.1 toolchain released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released an updated native
- uClibc/gcc-3.1.1 toolchain. This toolchain builds a real gcc cross
- compiler (i.e. not just a wrapper) and creates executables linked vs
- uClibc. This toolchain has been (briefly) tested as working on x86, arm,
- mips, and arm7tdmi (uClinux). This toolchain provides a number of
- improvements over previous releases. In particular, Steven J. Hill found
- and fixes a number of "glibc-isms" in the libstdc++ math support which
- caused a number of math functions to be mapped to the non-standard named
- under GNU libc. This release also includes greatly improved uClinux
- "elf2flt" support, and it now produces working flat binaries for my
- uClinux/arm7tdmi system. The native uClibc/gcc-2.95 toolchain will be
- updated in a few days, and will include STLport which will allow that
- toolchain to also provide full C++ support.
- <p>
-
- This toolchain should make it easy for anyone to build uClibc based
- applications.
- <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
- Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on
- demand when you compile things. To build the toolchain, simply
- grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like
- the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat
- dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles. It takes
- about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.1.1 toolchain (w/C++ support)
- on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download
- source code). Your results may vary...
- <p>
-
- <li> <b>9 August 2002, uClibc now mirrored on kernel.org!</b>
- <br>
- uClibc is now available from the kernel.org mirrors! This should make
- uClibc downloads much faster. The kernel.org mirrors will have all
- uClibc release versions (everything but the daily snapshots).
- Here is a list of all the <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror sites</a>.
- Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to "/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/"
- to download uClibc.
- Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
- http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a> to download the latest
- uClibc release from a nice fast system.
- <p>
- <p>
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>9 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.13 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.13. After several days of testing, this release is looking very
- solid. This release fixes three security vulnerabilites in previous
- releases. There was an off-by-one buffer overflow in the group handling
- code, and integer overflows in calloc() and xdr_array().
- <p>
-
- This release adds native shared library support for the Hitachi
- SuperH architecture, thanks to Stefan Allius and Edie C. Dost. A
- new mmap based malloc was implemented by Miles Bader. This is much
- smarter than the old "malloc-simple" and is now the default for
- mmu-less systems, where it should greatly help reduce memory
- fragmentation and wastage. In addition to these larger items, there
- has been a <em>lot</em> of work done to make uClibc a cleaner, more
- capable, library. Most applications now compile and run without
- any trouble.
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.13.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- <p>
- Have fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>11 July 2002, Native uClibc toolchains updated</b>
- <br>
- CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released updated native
- uClibc/gcc-3.1 and uClibc/gcc-2.95 toolchains. These toolchains
- build real gcc cross compilers (i.e. not just a wrapper) and create
- executables linked vs uClibc. These toolchains have been tested
- and found working on x86, arm, and mmu-less arm. They should work
- (at least in theory!) for all architectures supported by uClibc.
- <p>
-
- These toolchains should make it easy to anyone to build uClibc based
- applications.
- <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
- Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on
- demand when you compile things. To build the toolchain, simply
- grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like
- the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat
- dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles. It takes
- about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.1 toolchain (w/C++ support)
- on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download
- source code). Your results may vary...
- <p>
-
-
- <P>
- <li> <b>20 June 2002, uClibc 0.9.12 Released</b>
- <br>
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.12. This release adds an i960 port, an initial alpha port,
- fully working mips shared library support, shared library support fixes
- for on powerpc, and many other improvements. One very exciting new feature
- is nearly complete locale support, thanks to a lot of hard work by Manuel
- Novoa III. uClibc's locale support is <em>much</em> smaller than glibc's,
- though it is also slightly less flexible. This release was delayed by a
- month due to the arrival of a new baby at Erik's house. For those that
- have been anxiously waiting, this release should certainly be worth the
- wait. Have fun!
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.12.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
-
- <li> <b>28 May 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.1 toolchain</b>
- <br>
- CodePoet Consulting has released source code and a Makefile to build a
- gcc-3.1 toolchain that natively targets uClibc. Additionally, the
- gcc-3.0.4 and gcc-2.95 toolchains have also been updated. These toolchains
- make it easy to build uClibc based applications.
- <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
- and is now much smaller,
- since much of the needed binutils and gcc source code is now downloaded on
- demand. To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile
- to select where you would like the toolchain installed, and then run 'make'
- and wait for it to compile.
-
- <p>
- <p><li> <b>10 April 2002, uClibc 0.9.11 Released</b>
- <br>
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.11. This release is primarily focused on fixing the issues that
- have turned up since the last release. Several bugs in the gcc wrapper
- have been fixed, allowing applications such as iproute2 and XFree86 to link properly.
- Large file support has been improved, and a thread locking bug was
- fixed that could cause s*printf calls to deadlock when threading was
- enabled. Several bugs were also fixed with the powerpc, h8300, m68k,
- sparc, and mips architecture support. Many additional applications now
- compile and run perfectly and have been added to the <a
- href="uClibc-apps.html">working applications list</a> .
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.11.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>10 April 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.0.4 toolchain</b>
- <br>
- CodePoet Consulting has released source code and a Makefile
- to build a gcc-3.0.4 toolchain that natively targets uClibc.
- This brings with it full C++ support for uClibc, including the
- libstdc++ library. A gcc-2.95.x toolchain will also be released
- shortly, but is not yet ready. At this time, only source code and
- a Makefile for the native uClibc toolchain is being released (i.e.
- no binaries, sorry).
- <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
- <p>
- To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile
- to select where you would like the toolchain installed. Then
- run 'make' and wait for it to compile. If you do not have a copy
- of uClibc already, it will download the latest daily snapshot.
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>21 March 2002, uClibc 0.9.10 Released!</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate
- availability of uClibc 0.9.10. This release adds pthreads support
- (including pthreads support for mmu-less systems!). Additionally,
- thanks to Manuel Novoa III, we now have a completely new stdio
- library, which is small, standards compliant, supports pthreads,
- wide/narrow streams, large files, and can even operate in a
- low-memory unbuffered mode. Many, many bugs have been fixed and a
- number of additional applications now compile and run perfectly.
- Even with all these changes, uClibc continues to be very small.
- On x86, a default build of the uClibc C library is still just 168k.
-
- <p>
-
- To make things more interesting, the release also adds support for
- C++ constructors and destructors. To make it easy to use uClibc
- when developing C++ applications, this release also provides a
- wrapper for the GNU C++ compiler. Of course, for more complex C++
- applications, such as those using iostreams, a standard C++ library
- (libstdc++) is required. A native GNU toolchain (binutils/gcc) that
- provides libstdc++ linked with uClibc 0.9.10 will be released in the
- next couple of days, so stay tuned.
-
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.10.tar.bz2">Source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>4 February 2002, uClibc 0.9.9 Released!</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate
- availability of uClibc 0.9.9. With this release,
- <a href="uClibc-apps.html">just about
- everything we have tested now compiles and runs</a>. In fact,
- there are now so many programs on the working application list that
- rather than continue to add to this list, from now on we
- will only be adding applications to the <em>not working list</em>. Most applications
- on the <em>not working list</em> either require pthreads, or require
- wide-character support. Work on wide-character support is
- well underway, and will hopefully be moving into CVS in the next week or
- two. Full pthreads support and rentrancy are on the TODO list
- and are expected to be complete in the next couple of months.
- <p>
- The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a
- href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.9.tar.bz2">Source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
- <p>
- One final bit on news -- as some of you may have noticed, uclibc.org
- has been a bit overloaded and somewhat slow recently. The server should
- be getting colocated tomorrow, which will eliminate the speed problem.
- During the move, there may be some temporary disruption of service...
- <p>
- Have Fun!
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>22 December 2001, uClibc 0.9.8 Released!</b>
- <br>
-
- After many months of initial development, we are pleased to announce the
- release of uClibc 0.9.8. This release should be quite solid, and is very
- usable. This also, hopefully, marks a transition from a slow incubation
- phase to a more methodical release cycle. From now one, there should be
- approximately one release per month.
- <p>
- The source code for this release is available
- <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>26 November 2001, powerpc shared libraries fully working</b>
- <br>
- Dave Schleef finished off the the work needed for shared library support on
- powerpc. There had been a few problems remaining, and those are now squashed.
- So shared libs on powerpc should be working fully now.
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>14 November 2001, m68 compiles again, Large file support working</b>
- <br>
- About a month ago I synced the header files with glibc 2.2.4 for better
- C++ support and better standards compliance. I forgot to sync up m68k,
- sparc, powerpc, and mipsel. Dave Schleef fixed powerpc while he was fixing
- up the shared lib loader. I just fixed up m68k, sparc, and mipsel so they
- should all compile again.
- <p>
- I also finished up fixing large file support (just enable DOLFS in your
- Config file to enable it) and it is working just great, and greatly increases
- the number of glibc applications that will work "out-of-the-tarball" without
- needing any changes.
-
-
- <li> <b>12 November 2001, powerpc shared lib support</b>
- <br>
- Thanks to David Schleef, uClibc now has full shared library support
- on powerpc. This brings full shared library support to x86, ARM, and
- now powerpc. Thanks Dave!
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>7 November 2001, uClibc application list</b>
- <br>
- uClibc now has a <a href="uClibc-apps.html">list of applications</a>
- that are known to work. If you have any applications to add to the
- list, submissions are welcome!
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>18 October 2001, buildroot uClibc example system</b>
- <br>
-
- Those wanting an easy way to test out uClibc and give it
- a test drive can download and compile
- <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/buildroot/">buildroot</a>.
- This is a nifty buildsystem that will automagically download and build
- a <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
- kernel, and will then download source for and compile up a fully
- working uClibc based root filesystem. This should make it easy for
- people to create their own projects. I hope that this build system
- will allow people to more easily use and build uClibc based systems.
- As an example of how nicely this works, the
- <a href="http://tuxscreen.net/">Tuxscreen Project</a> is using a
- <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxscreen/buildroot-tux/">slightly adjusted variant of the buildroot system</a> to cross
- compile the blob bootloader, linux kernel, and a uClibc based jffs2
- root filesystem (busybox, tinylogin, udhcp, lrzsz, pcmcia-cs and
- microwindows) for ARM. Pretty cool.
-
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>11 October 2001, v850 architecture support</b>
- <br>
-
- Miles Bader has contributed support for the v850 architecture.
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>25 Spetember 2001, header files updated</b>
- <br>
-
- uClibc's header files are now in sync with glibc 2.2.4,
- allowing better standards compliance, better portibility, and
- better C++ support.
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>4 July 2001, ARM shared library support</b>
- <br>
-
- uClibc now has full shared library support on ARM.
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>9 May 2001, libm added</b>
- <br>
-
- uClibc now has a very complete math library.
-
-
- <p>
- <p> <li> <b>9 May 2001, ld.so added</b>
- <br>
-
- uClibc now has a native ld.so. It currently is only ported to work on x86,
- but porting to other architectures should not be too difficult.
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>15 March 2001, powerpc port added</b>
- <br>
-
- David Schleef contributed a powerpc port, which is now in CVS.
-
- <p> <li> <b>19 February 2001, SH port added</b>
- <br>
-
- Jean-Yves Avenard contributed an SH port. See his email
- with the initial patch <a href="/lists/uclibc/2001-February/000409.html">here</a>.
-
- <p> <li> <b>16 January 2001, uClibc as a shared library</b>
- <br>
-
- As if January 16, uClibc can now be used (at least on x86) as a shared
- library. See the <a href="/lists/uclibc/2001-January/000126.html">email</a>
- announcing this achievement.
-
- <p> <li> <b>11 January 2001, gcc wrapper added</b>
- <br>
-
- Manuel Novoa III has created a wrapper for gcc that makes compiling apps vs uClibc
- as simple as just setting "CC" to gcc-uClibc-&lt arch&gt. This even works when cross
- compiling! Very cool.
-
- <p> <li> <b>3 January 2001, uClibc now has a web page</b>
- <br>
-
- A lot of work has been going on under the hood with uClibc,
- so I decided to put together this webpage to let the world know
- that it exists and is getting to be usable.
-
-</ul>
-
-
-<!--#include file="footer.html" -->
-
diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/other_libs.html b/docs/uclibc.org/other_libs.html
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-
-
-<h3>Other Open Source C libraries</h3>
-I am currently aware of the following open source C libraries.
-
-<ul>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">The GNU C Library</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/">The FreeBSD C Library</a>
- <li> <a href="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/">The NetBSD C Library</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/">The OpenBSD C Library</a>
- <li> <a href="http://cvs.opendarwin.org/index.cgi/src/Libc/">The OpenDarwin C Library</a>
- <li><a href="http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/">dietlibc</a>
- <li> <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/">newlib</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.k9wk.com/cdoc.html">Al's FREE C Runtime Library</a>
- <li>the <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html">minix</a>
- <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/cgi-bin/raw/pub/minix/2.0.0/src.tar">C library</a>
- <li>and there is a <a href="ftp://ecos.sourceware.org/pub/ecos/">C library</a>,
- for <a href="http://ecos.sourceware.org/">eCos</a> as well.
-
-</ul>
-
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-
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-
-
-<h3>Products/Projects Using uClibc</h3>
-
-Do you use uClibc? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to you.
-
-<p>
-I know of the following products and/or projects that use uClibc --
-listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page:
-
-<ul>
-
-<li><a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/buildroot/">buildroot</a> a configurable means for building your own busybox/uClibc based system systems.</li>
-<li><a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&amp;menu=910&amp;page_id=36">LEAF Bering-uClibc</a>
- <br>the sucessor of the Linux Router Project, supporting all sorts of gateways, routers, wireless routers, and firewalls.</li>
-<li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508">Linksys WRT54G - Wireless-G Broadband Router</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.netgear.com/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=170">NetGear WG602 wireless router</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.axis.com/">Almost all the Axis network cameras use uClibc</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://embedded.gentoo.org/">Embedded Gentoo</a></li>
-
-</ul>
-
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-
-
-<h3>Anonymous Subversion Access</h3>
-
-We allow anonymous (read-only) Subversion (svn) access to everyone. To
-grab a copy of the latest version of uClibc using anonymous svn access is:
-
-<pre>
-svn co svn://uclibc.org/trunk/uClibc</pre>
-
-
-<p>
-
-If you are not already familiar with using Subversion, I recommend you visit <a
-href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">the Subversion website</a>. You might
-also want to read online or buy a copy of <a
-href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/">the Subversion Book</a>. If you are
-already comfortable with using CVS, you may want to skip ahead to the <a
-href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/apa.html">Subversion for CVS Users</a>
-part of the Subversion Book.
-
-<p>
-
-Once you've checked out a copy of the source tree, you can update your source
-tree at any time so it is in sync with the latest and greatest by entering your
-uClibc directory and running the command:
-
-<pre>
-svn update</pre>
-
-Because you've only been granted anonymous access to the tree, you won't be
-able to commit any changes. Changes can be submitted for inclusion by posting
-them to the uClibc mailing list. For those that are actively contributing
-<a href="developer.html">Subversion commit access</a> can be made available.
-
-<!--#include file="footer.html" -->
-
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-
-
-<h3>Toolchains</h3>
-To use uClibc, you need to have a toolchain. A toolchain consists
-of <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/">GNU binutils</a>,
-<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">the gcc compiler</a>, and uClibc, all
-built to produce binaries for your target system linked with uClibc.
-You can build your own native uClibc toolchain using the
-<a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">uClibc buildroot system</a>.
-
-<p>
-To build your own uClibc toolchain, follow the following simple
-steps:
-<ul>
- <li> Point your web browser <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">here</a>,
- <li> Download of copy of buildroot
- <li> Unpack the tarball on your Linux system somewhere
- <li> Edit the Makefile as needed if you wish to change anything.
- <li> run 'unset CC'. Then run 'unset CXX'. Some Linux systems
- (i.e. Gentoo) set variables such as 'CC' in the system environment
- which really messes things up when cross compiling.
- <li> run 'make menuconfig'
- <li> Select the things you want to build. If you <em>only</em> want a
- toolchain, leave everything except the toolchain disabled.
- <li> save your buildroot configuration.
- <li> run 'make'
- <li> go eat a nice wholesome sandwich, drink a pop, call a friend,
- play a video game, and generally find something to do. While you
- are waiting, buildroot will download all the needed source code and
- then compile things up for you.
- <li> You should now have a shiny new toolchain, and maybe even a shiny
- new uClibc based root filesystem or development system, depending on
- the options you selected.
-</ul>
-
-
-
-
-<p>
-
-If you want to be <em>really</em> lazy and start using uClibc right away
-without needing to compile your own toolchain or anything, you can grab a
-pre-compiled uClibc development system. These are currently available for
-
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_arm.ext2.bz2">arm</a>,
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_armeb.ext2.bz2">armeb</a>,
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_i386.ext2.bz2">i386</a>,
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_mips.ext2.bz2">mips</a>,
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_mipsel.ext2.bz2">mipsel</a>,
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_powerpc.ext2.bz2">powerpc</a>, and
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_sh4.ext2.bz2">sh4</a>.
-
-<p>
-
-These are bzip2 compressed ext2 filesystems containing all the development
-software you need to build your own uClibc applications, including: bash, awk,
-make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh, gdb,
-strace, busybox, GNU coreutils, GNU tar, GNU grep, etc.
-
-<p>
-
-Each of these uClibc development systems was created using
-<a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a>, specifically,
-<a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/buildroot-0.9.27.tar.bz2">buildroot-0.9.27.tar.bz2</a>
-along with <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/buildroot-sources">these sources</a>.
-
-<p>
-
-These development systems should provide pretty much everything you need to get
-started building your own applications with uClibc. Once you download one of
-these systems, you can then boot into it, loop mount it, dd it to a spare drive
-and use a tool such as resize2fs to make it fill a partition... Whatever works
-best for you.
-
-<p>
-The quickest way to get started using a root_fs image (using the i386
-platform as an example) is:
-<ul>
- <li>Download root_fs_i386.bz2 from uclibc.org</li>
- <li>bunzip2 root_fs_i386.bz2</li>
- <li>mkdir root_fs</li>
- <li>su root</li>
- <li>mount -o loop root_fs_i386 root_fs</li>
- <li>chroot root_fs /bin/su -</li>
-</ul>
-Type "exit" to end the chroot session and return to your host system.
-<p>
-
-
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-<p>
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-<!-- 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>
-
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- <A NAME="notworking"> <BIG><B>
- uClibc -- NOT WORKING Application List
- </font>
- </A></B></BIG>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-
-<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>
-
-<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 -->
-<center>
-<table width="100%" border=1>
-<tr><th width="15%"> Program </th>
- <th width="15%"> Version </th>
- <th width="70%"> Comment </th>
-</tr>
-<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
-<tr>
- <td> <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a> </td>
- <td> &nbsp;</td>
- <td> Might actually work now. Someone care to give it a try?</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
- <td> Dunno....</a> </td>
- <td> &nbsp;</td>
- <td> If you know of an application that <em>does not work</em> with uClibc,
- PLEASE let us know! </td>
-</tr>
-<!-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
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-</table>
-</center>
-<!-- End of NOT Working List -->
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