[oe-users] glibc vs uclibc

[James L Henrickson]

Hi,

I'm confused about uclibc vs glibc.  I thought uclibc was preferred for 
embedded systems because it it smaller than glibc.  Is this no longer 
true?  I would hate to put off my OpenEmbedded project for a newer 
version of uclibc if there isn't a good reason for me to do so.  So far, 
I haven't found an indication that there will be a new version of uclibc 
any time soon.  As far as I know, buildroot and GNAP (despite its lack 
of cross platform support) still use uclibc.  I read that uclibc 
supports systems without MMU while glibc doesn't.  Is that still true?  
Any help would be appreciated.

Jim

>Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:14:08 +0100
>From: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>
>Subject: Re: [oe-users] x86 uclibc
>To: Using OE <openembedded-users at openembedded.org>
>Message-ID: <4583B8E0.6000606 at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>
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>>Hi,
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>>I am a newbie to OpenEmbedded and I'm trying to get my feet wet with x86 
>>builds before trying other target platforms.  I was able to build a 
>>"normal" x86 target but even though I specified "bitbake bind", my 
>>resulting target did not include named.  Is there a trick to getting 
>>named/bind included in my target image?
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>'bitbake <something>' will just build <something>, it won't add it to the target image. If
>you want it in your target image you can choose from the following:
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>1) add it to the RDEPENDS of the target images
>2) add it to DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS in your target distro configuration file
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>>I tried multiple times to build a "uclibc" x86 target, but it seems gcc 
>>isn't getting built.  I messed around with the local configuration file, 
>>but I can't seem to find anything that works.  If someone can 
>>successfully do this, can they forward me a copy of their configuration 
>>file?
>>    
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>uclibc 0.9.28 is now over a year old (http://www.codepoet.org/cake/img_1629.jpg) and the
>people that use uclibc are waiting for .29 to get released to fix it in OE.
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>regards,
>
>Koen
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