On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Eric Spakman wrote:
[...]
> > Re: the value of uClibc...
> >
> > I think it is good that someone is doing this, but it is also good to be
> > clear that the gain in code size comes at a potential narrowing of
> > applicability due to incompatibility with glibc. For closed boxes, this
> > is probably actually desirable... but one of the selling points of LEAF is
> > its adaptability. To the extent that uClibc fails to implement features
> > of glibc (e.g. localization), the usefulness of LEAF based on it will be
> > necessarily limited.
> >
> uClibc does have locale support (new feature).
This is good to know. I don't feel it invalidates my point, though.
> On the other hand,
> most binaries compiled against a "modern" Glibc (2.2.x) are not
> compatible with the old Glibc used in LEAF (my experience, maybe I
> did something wrong :-). So to create binaries for LEAF I needed an
> old Linux distribution with Glibc2.0, for uClibc I just installed the
> development environment on my 'modern' distribution.
Development environments for Glibc2.0 exist for 'modern'
distributions. Your choice to use uClibc was simply that... a choice.
Also, some variants of LEAF are already grappling with the size
vs. compatibility issues of software that requires glibc2.2. glibc2.0
currently seems to have the best compatibility vs. size combination.
> > To reiterate.... I think there is room for both, but the tradeoffs should
> > be made clear to new LEAF users.
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