From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: andersen@codepoet.org
Cc: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>,
"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>,
Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: klibc development release
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:18:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D56E2A9.40303@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020811210406.GA27048@codepoet.org
Erik Andersen wrote:
>
>>to one side: I'm not fond of glibc and am looking to replace it in my own
>>system, but it hasn't made it to the top of my to-do list yet. (Dietlibc is
>>straight GPL: it can't even be the dynamic replacement for glibc in a real
>>world linux distribution. HPA suggested I look at newlibc, which I've added
>>to my to-do list).
>
> As far as I know, uClibc is the only library that is able to
> replace glibc for real world linux distributions... And I've
> looked long and hard (which was why I ended up making uClibc),
>
This, of course, is not a goal for klibc at all. I looked at uclibc,
dietlibc, and newlib before starting klibc. klibc is meant to be *tiny*
first of all, and is very much not designed to be able to compile
arbitrary programs.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-11 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-09 3:39 klibc development release H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 10:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-08-09 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 11:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-09 19:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-09 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 19:04 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-09 19:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 22:27 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-09 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 6:22 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-10 6:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 10:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-10 10:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 10:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-10 10:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 6:21 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-09 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 20:22 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-09 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 20:16 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-09 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-11 5:02 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 13:13 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-12 2:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-12 4:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-09 22:03 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-11 5:11 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 15:56 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-11 18:20 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-11 15:31 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 21:04 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-11 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-08-12 3:17 ` Jamie Lokier
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