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> > On Jul 9, 2004, at 11:39 AM, David Meggy wrote: > >> It's an embedded C library. http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/ >> >> I think more people would be interested in uClibc, >> http://www.uclibc.org/, another embedded C library. I did a quick >> little test trying to build a cross compiling toolchain with the >> standard deb sources. >> > > > Hmmm, I wasn't aware of uclibc. From poking around the web it looks > like it's well supported. I only mentioned newlib as I've used it > before (am using it now on a really small arm-elf project using the > gnuarm.org tools). Mostly we're after something that works and is much > smaller than glibc! Something about a year ago, I participated in one embedded project; we used uclibc on arm hardware there, and it worked well. The only problem was that the project used some ancient vendor kernel, based on 2.2.1, that was buggy and demonstrated more faults with uclibc that with glibc. After fixing the kernel, problems went away :). As for packaging, I have plans to add alternate libc support to debian cross-gcc-* packages. However, first I wish to finish what I'm doing now - make cross-compiler packages to build for all debian targets. Yesterday I located the problem with multilib support in cross-compiler (it was at binutils side), and succeed building sparc target with gcc-3.3; resulting cross-compiler supports both -m32 and -m64; appropriate support for dpkg-cross is already committed. Now the only failing target is s390; I guess because of some error at my side, i'll look at it these days. As soon as all targets build, I'll submit new patches for binutils and gcc packages. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA8kBEsTbPknTfAB4RAlzMAJ4k+l8m52562TMTtLFf5+8X8n+DKgCfWFBb 7fgRVH+1uNzVBc8HPIs9nOE= =WbEr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
