[uClibc]Freeswan and uClibc+libbind compiles

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Sat Dec 8 01:08:00 UTC 2001


On Sat Dec 08, 2001 at 01:52:39AM +0100, arne @ loopback . org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> now i finally got it compiling and after reinstalling uClibc it seems to
> work (i got an ld error complaining about no _start found, i forgot the
> actual message), thanks to the hint to use libbind (8.2.5).
> 
> So, i will test this the next days , at least libgmp-3.1.1 compiled without
> any problem. The only thing that is not really the way i hoped is the size
> of the freeswan pluto daemon when linked with libbind.a (500kb, static
> compile with libresolv and glibc 2.1.3 is 620kb...).

If I recall correctly, the problems forcing you to use libbind.a
was uClibc's lack of support for __res_ninit and __res_nquery,
right?  Presumably adding some basic __res support to uClibc's
libresolv should do wonders for you...

 -Erik

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