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 _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
