We are using 2.2.12-20 kernel. We are currently using glibc2.1 which when
stripped occupies 1.1Megs.
How big is glibc2.0? What is LRP?
Is there a backwards compatibility FAQ for using libc5 with 2.2 kernel? I
would love to use libc5 because we do not use any new features in
glibc2.1 and libc5 seems to be only 500K in size.
We used to use other operating systems and they had a very customizable
libc equivalent (customization almost at a function level - e.g. if I did
not want strcpy etc..., I could strip it off). Since we are using other
applications like "date", "ls", etc..., it seems to be impossible to strip
anything out of glibc without breaking these applications. It seems that
there is 300K of UNICODE and locale stuff in glibc2.1 and all the
applications have been re-written to support locale and UNICODE. I think
that was a right move because Linux has worldwide audience. But for
embedded systems, it would have been nice if it was possible to omit that.
Another thing which we wanted was removal of threads from glibc2.1. But
even that is not possible.
Thanks
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Pawan Singh
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Tomasz Motylewski wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Pawan Singh wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to use libc5 with redhat 6.0 kernel? The reason why I am
> > asking this is for the embedded systems, libc5 is much smaller for x86
> > platforms than glibc2.1.
>
> stripped glibc2.0 distributed with LRP is not too big as well, and the
> programs linked with it dynamically seem to be smaller.
>
> What is redhat 6.0 kernel ? Give version number.
>
> It should be possible to run libc5 system with 2.2 kernel.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Tomek
>
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