Ewald Wasscher wrote:

> Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
>> This doesn't seem to be needed with Oxygen so it might no longer be  required
>> with Dachstein but it did seem necessary with ES2B... (Don't know if it was
>> with "plain" Eigerstein...). 
> 
> 
> Almost all programs on unix systems need some kind of c-library (libc). 
> The programs in oxygen's root.lrp are statically linked with a tiny 
> c-library (uClibc), so that they have a "builtin" libc and don't need a 


Which is available from the busybox site...


> seperate one. The advantage of this is that Oxygen's root.lrp is 
> independent of the version of glibc used. So if you feel like it you 
> should be able to replace the libc.lrp that comes with Oxygen (it 
> contains glibc-2.1.3) with your shiny new home-made 2.2.4 version. The 
> disadvantage is that it costs a bit of diskspace (approx. 65kb on the 
> ramdisk, 25kb on the floppy), because of the "builtin" libc.


So that's the trick he used/uses... Neat... (-; (-; (-;

It does take a little disk/ramddisk space but it might just be thing people with
two floppy drives installation need to go to glibc 2.1 (without the need to go
to 1.68 MB disks...).

> I hope this explains things a bit for you.


Yep, thanks!!!

Have a nice day!

Nick




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