Re: history of libc

Ion Badulescu (ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:10:21 -0500


On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 03:22:26 EST, Rick Hohensee wrote:
> When did Linux get a libc? Has it always been a GNU libc?

To expand a little upon this question: I got linux 0.10 to compile with
modern tools (egcs-1.1b, latest binutils), and it even boots. It took
some assembly and Makefiles hacking to get 0.10 to run compiled as
ELF.. :) But now I have to give it a root filesystem, and while I can
easily create a minixfs, I have no binaries to run.

Compiling some aout binaries is not a problem, but against what library?
Would a static 4.7.x libc be "old enough"? :-) And, more important, is
even aout (whichever variant of it my aout 2.7.2 will generate) "old
enough" for 0.10? :-)

If some old-time guru is reading this, please speak up and shed some
light.. :-)

P.S. The modified 0.10-ELF tarball is available at
ftp://moisil.cs.columbia.edu/pub/linux/

Ion

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