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MORIN" To: Thomas Petazzoni Message-ID: <20220816210334.GP2854108@scaer> References: <20220815202955.2216503-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220815202955.2216503-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Mailman-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=free.fr; s=smtp-20201208; t=1660683822; bh=fGOicHbQtRjWyleWz3KipWwk6O+BaIfVPbbdb7iAIYQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=TDNn0Qdm2gIvjzoTKoL6eeYf0dU8m/PCwIDP9v5nTCJ6WS/uHZzMP+d/xlcHbmYmR cjsqa1aWl3KnllbbdFvLRT9JMq/eHiFNIun0mlSCLNjnBqXvyCdbb9qtrjIbKq0VUL km732HhFrskUrP6KERFO5BuSWf+5faM8ZPHNRF+jZgx5wIGhX3YIVOEzZ4kyJEArGb I2Nxt1cCPMP0Oeo0kmgXavnrdw0yUgVisZE5npcmHpgAqdieY87rvrTVMu6JZXEsPJ FgC+ECptk4Jbqwjtt7hsk1md0vedwTDWhcR8Oe92JY0KozUrXTHwt+7xcvjJwSLzb0 Yscr1lAnvMp6g== X-Mailman-Original-Authentication-Results: smtp2.osuosl.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=free.fr header.i=@free.fr header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=smtp-20201208 header.b=TDNn0Qdm Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH next] toolchain/toolchain-buildroot: default to glibc as the C library X-BeenThere: buildroot@buildroot.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion and development of buildroot List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Buildroot List , Giulio Benetti , Romain Naour , Thomas De Schampheleire Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: buildroot-bounces@buildroot.org Sender: "buildroot" Thomas, All, On 2022-08-15 22:29 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot spake thusly: > This is perhaps the most controversial change for Buildroot that can > be written in a two-liner. > > Historically, we have used uClibc as our default C library, as > Buildroot was created initially as a test-bed for uClibc, and also > because uClibc made a lot of sense for embedded Linux systems, due to > its smaller size and fine-grained configurability. > > Since then, the landscape of embedded Linux systems has changed. Even > though Buildroot happily supports really low-end devices, the vast > majority of Buildroot users are quite certainly running the resulting > system on a reasonably powerful platform, with significant amount of > RAM and storage. In this context, the benefits of uClibc are no longer > that much relevant, and glibc causes less "troubles". Therefore, this > patch proposes to use glibc as our default C library when using the > internal toolchain backend instead of uClibc. > > Of course, we will keep the support for uClibc, which remains an > important C library choice, for space-constrained systems, or simply > for architectures that are not supported by glibc. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN Yes, I will be a bit sad that we demote uClibc-ng, but let's face it: the word moves on, let's move along. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. > --- > toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in b/toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in > index 836af3b22a..9956dc4383 100644 > --- a/toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in > +++ b/toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in > @@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_VENDOR > > choice > prompt "C library" > - default BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_UCLIBC > - default BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC if BR2_powerpc64 > + default BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC > > config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_UCLIBC > bool "uClibc-ng" > -- > 2.37.2 > > _______________________________________________ > buildroot mailing list > buildroot@buildroot.org > https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. 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