Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jul 03 2006 - 22:01:16 EST


Jeff Bailey wrote:
Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 Ã 20:46 +0200, maximilian attems a Ãcrit :
well but busybox is big nowadays and generally compiled against glibc.
i'm quite eager to kick busybox out of default Debian initramfs-tools
to have an klibc only default initramfs. those tools are needed atm,
and there is not enough yet. afaik suse adds sed on klibc with a minimal
patch and we'd liked to have stat, kill and readlink on klibc-utils.

how about busybox on klibc?

I made a brief attempt to do busybox on klibc before klcc was working
right for me. I should try that again. In Ubuntu, we already do a
separate build pass of busybox to get just the features that we want, it
would be easy to play with this.

I'll let you know. It'll take me a couple days - between travelling and
the long weekend, I'm a bit behind.


I think the main things that aren't in klibc are the userid and the network databases. They should be reasonably easy to stub out.

-hpa
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