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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



  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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