On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 08:30, Eric Spakman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I managed to build an (allmost) complete version of Bering RC3 against 
> uClibc 0.9.12. This version is *a lot* smaller than the original versionbuild 

Cool.


> against GLIBC2. I tested the following modules: weblet, root, initrd, dhcpd, 
> pump, ezipupd, dnscache... I don't use pppd, so I couldn't test it but it 
> compiled without a problem. I had some problems with the symbolic links 
> stdin, stdout and stderror to /dev/fd in root.dev.mk (I couldn't log in) so I 
> removed them, still everything works like expected. I don't know exactly what 
> the problem is with stdin etc but maybe it's got something to do with uClibc, 
> tinylogin or the version of ash I use (slack 8.1).

In my experience, the version of ash provided by busybox works pretty
well. Why did you decide to use slack ash instead?
 

> I don't have the "ip patched" version of ifupdown and included ifconfig and 
> route. There is a new version of ifupdown (0.6.4-4.3) that makes it possible to 
> use udhcp and make things even smaller.

It is unfortunate that the ifupdown patch is not public; Bering is less
than 100% open source as a result.

> 
> I don't know if uClibc is the way to go for LEAF, but it's rappidly evolving. 
> Glibc 2.0.7 is not maintained and Glibc 2.2.x is just to big to fit on a floppy. 

If enough of us use uClibc-based LEAF packages, perhaps there should be
a uClibc branch in the LEAF package repository. One problem is that new
uClibc versions are released fairly frequently; perhaps we could
standardize on the current release (0.9.12), and provide new branches
for new releases. 


> An other 'advantage' of uClibc is that you can get rid of nss libs and 
> nsswitch.conf. 
> 
> Regards,
> Eric Spakman
> 

-Richard




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