Re: uClibc support

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas dot petazzoni at enix dot org>]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:33:09AM -0700, Carl Miller wrote :
> Hi, Thomas.  Yes, the plan is for crosstool eventually to officially
> support uClibc.  Dan would like to make an official release of 0.28
> first, and make uClibc support the first major feature added post-0.28.
> This works OK for me, as I'm currently swamped under other projects,
> and I wrote the crosstool-uClibc patch.  I still intend to rewrite the
> crosstool-uClibc patch for 0.28-release once it's out, and if I can
> squeeze the time, also for newer versions of uClibc (the patch against
> -rc5 only handles uClibc-0.9.23, which is nigh on a year old).  If I
> can convince the bosses at work that Linux/GNU workstations and gcc/uClibc
> tools are right for the next project we'll be starting early next year,
> then I'll be able to get to things quicker.  If not, this will all be
> spare time stuff for me, and a bit of help would certainly be welcome.

Thanks for these informations.

How hard would it be to make crosstools-0.28-rc35 support recent
versions of uClibc ? I've looked at your patch againt
crosstools-0.28-rc5 but it looks really huge, specifically the included
patch against binutils-2.14.

What needs to be done ?

Thomas
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