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@@ -44,7 +44,21 @@ To compile programs with uClibc, and then just ./configure and make as usual. -Note: You may also want to look at extra/gcc-uclibc/gcc-uclibc.c for - additional information concerning what options and environment - variables the gcc wrapper handles. - +Note: + + You may also want to look at extra/gcc-uclibc/gcc-uclibc.c for + additional information concerning what options and environment + variables the gcc wrapper handles. + +Note2: + + There is an unwholesomely huge amount of code out there that + depends on the presence of GNU libc header files. We have GNU + libc header files. So we have committed a horrible sin in + uClibc. We _lie_ and claim to be GNU libc in order to force + many applications to work as their developers intended. This + is IMHO, pardonable, since these defines are not really + intended to check for the presence of a particular library, but + rather are used to define an _interface_. Some programs (such + as GNU binutils) are especially chummy with glibc, and need + this behavior disabled by adding CFLAGS+=-D__FORCE_NOGLIBC |