[MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc

2011-02-15 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hello, Is there a reason that MeeGo uses the Red Hat version of glibc[0] versus the GNU version of glibc[1]? It seems eglibc is more appropriate for embedded systems. 0. http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/ 1. http://www.eglibc.org/home -- Jeremiah ___

Re: [MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc

2011-02-15 Thread Wichmann, Mats D
. From: meego-dev-boun...@meego.com [mailto:meego-dev-boun...@meego.com] On Behalf Of Jeremiah Foster Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 7:27 AM To: meego-dev@meego.com Subject: [MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc Hello, Is there a reason that MeeGo uses the Red Hat version of glibc[0] versus the GNU

Re: [MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc

2011-02-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 at 15:27:02 +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote: Is there a reason that MeeGo uses the Red Hat version of glibc[0] versus the GNU version of glibc[1]? It seems eglibc is more appropriate for embedded systems. 0. http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/ 1. http://www.eglibc.org/home

Re: [MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc

2011-02-15 Thread Jeremiah Foster
None of the replies answers the question, which I'll repeat; is there a reason why MeeGo uses one and not the other? On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Simon McVittie s...@collabora.co.ukwrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 at 15:27:02 +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote: Is there a reason that MeeGo uses the

Re: [MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc

2011-02-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 2/15/2011 8:57 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote: None of the replies answers the question, which I'll repeat; is there a reason why MeeGo uses one and not the other? yes. we use the real glibc that most folks are using the eglibc team is relative new with little track record (this is nothing

Re: [MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc

2011-02-15 Thread Syed Faisal Akber
Jeremiah, There are a number of libc alternatives out there for embedded systems. They include: uC-libc - http://www.uClinux.org/ uClibc - http://www.uclibc.org/ newlib - http://www.sourceware.org/newlib/ There are more that I'm not including here. The benefit of using GLIBC is that many

Re: [MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc

2011-02-15 Thread Carsten Munk
2011/2/15 Arjan van de Ven ar...@linux.intel.com: On 2/15/2011 8:57 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote: None of the replies answers the question, which I'll repeat; is there a reason why MeeGo uses one and not the other? yes. we use the real glibc that most folks are using the eglibc team is

Re: [MeeGo-dev] glibc vs. eglibc

2011-02-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 2/15/2011 10:11 AM, Syed Faisal Akber wrote: Jeremiah, There are a number of libc alternatives out there for embedded systems. They include: uC-libc - http://www.uClinux.org/ uClibc - http://www.uclibc.org/ newlib - http://www.sourceware.org/newlib/ There are more that I'm not including