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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-< arch>. 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" --> - |