Re: klibc development release

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 17:18:17 EST


Erik Andersen wrote:
>
>>to one side: I'm not fond of glibc and am looking to replace it in my own
>>system, but it hasn't made it to the top of my to-do list yet. (Dietlibc is
>>straight GPL: it can't even be the dynamic replacement for glibc in a real
>>world linux distribution. HPA suggested I look at newlibc, which I've added
>>to my to-do list).
>
> As far as I know, uClibc is the only library that is able to
> replace glibc for real world linux distributions... And I've
> looked long and hard (which was why I ended up making uClibc),
>

This, of course, is not a goal for klibc at all. I looked at uclibc,
dietlibc, and newlib before starting klibc. klibc is meant to be *tiny*
first of all, and is very much not designed to be able to compile
arbitrary programs.

        -hpa

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