[uClibc] Announce: uClibc dev systems updated

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Tue Sep 30 09:29:14 UTC 2003


The subject line pretty much says it all.  The uClibc dev systems
for x86, arm, powerpc, and mipsel have been updated.  Several
problems have been fixed up, gcc has been updated to version
3.3.1, binutils was updated, and everything finally works when
cross compiling.

These are ~100 MB ext2 filesystems that runs 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.

The new dev systems are available from
    http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/

or preferably, use your closest kernel.org mirror, i.e.:
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/

 -Erik

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