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<ul>
<p>
- <li> <b>3 March 2003, uClibc 0.9.19 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.19. This is once again primarily a bug-fix release. Several
- critical problems with system calls were fixed, the pthreads library was
- improved, debugging of applications using uClibc's pthreads library is
- now possible (requires gdb 5.3 or newer that is compiled using uClibc),
- and a number of other random fixes are included. This release retains
- binary compatibility with uClibc 0.9.18 (except for mips, which didn't
- work properly with uClibc 0.9.18 anyways). Updated development system
- images compiled with uClibc 0.9.19 will be released shortly.
-
- <p>
- As usual, the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.19.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- You might want to download uClibc from the closest
- <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
- Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
- http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
- to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.
- <p>
- <p>
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>17 February 2003, development system updates</b>
+ <li> <b>6 March 2003, development system updates</b>
<br>
The uClibc development systems for
@@ -149,48 +121,47 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives...
<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
and
<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-arm.bz2">arm</a>
- have been again updated. This time around a few broken symlinks
- (one preventing C++ code from compiling) have been fixed, several
- system calls related to uids and gid have been fixed, the powerpc
- system call mechanism has been updated, and GNU tar and GNU grep
- have been added. gcc, gcc+, ssh, etc are all still included and
- things remain binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.18.
- Have Fun.
+ have been again updated to uClibc 0.9.19. Several smaller problems
+ have also been fixed up. Also, with this update a
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-mipsel.bz2">
+ new development system for mipsel</a> is now also available.
<p>
+ This is an ext2 filesystem that runs natively on the specified
+ architecture. It contains all the development software you need to build
+ your own uClibc applications, including bash, coreutils, findutils,
+ diffutils, patch, sed, ed, flex, bison, file, gawk, tar, grep gdb, strace,
+ make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh and
+ more. And of course, everything is dynamically linked against uClibc. By
+ using a uClibc only system, you can avoid all the painful
+ cross-configuration problems that have made using uClibc somewhat painful
+ in the past. If you want to quickly get started with testing or using
+ uClibc this probably it. You can loop mount it and chroot into it, you can
+ boot into it wit user-mode Linux, your can 'dd' it to a spare partition and
+ use resize2fs to make it fill the drive. Whatever works best for you,
- <p>
- <li> <b>12 February 2003, development system updates</b>
- <br>
-
- The uClibc development system has had a number of problems
- fixed, and has been updated for uClibc 0.9.18. The
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">i386</a>
- and
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- and
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-arm.bz2">arm</a>
- devel systems are updated and ready to download and use.
Have Fun.
<p>
<p>
- <li> <b>12 February 2003, uClibc 0.9.18 Released</b>
+ <li> <b>3 March 2003, uClibc 0.9.19 Released</b>
<br>
CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.18. This is primarily a bug-fix release, as there were a few
- directory handling problem that could cause application using uClibc 0.9.17
- to either segfault or lose the first character when reading directry names.
- Unfortunately, once again, this release is _NOT_ binary compatible with
- earlier uClibc releases. I _think this will be the last time (with the
- possible exception of some future changes to our locale support...)
+ uClibc 0.9.19. This is once again primarily a bug-fix release. Several
+ critical problems with system calls were fixed, the pthreads library was
+ improved, debugging of applications using uClibc's pthreads library is
+ now possible (requires gdb 5.3 or newer that is compiled using uClibc),
+ and a number of other random fixes are included. This release retains
+ binary compatibility with uClibc 0.9.18 (except for mips, which didn't
+ work properly with uClibc 0.9.18 anyways). Updated development system
+ images compiled with uClibc 0.9.19 will be released shortly.
<p>
As usual, the
<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.18.tar.bz2">source code</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.19.tar.bz2">source code</a>
for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
You might want to download uClibc from the closest
<a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
@@ -201,60 +172,6 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives...
<p>
<p>
- <p>
- <li> <b>25 January 2003, uClibc 0.9.17 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.17. The biggest piece of news with this release, thanks to
- Manuel Novoa's continuing hard work, is that we now have fully standards
- compliant locale support (optional of course). The support works nicely,
- (though configuring the locales you wish to support is still manual -- a
- task for the next release). Full locale data for over 300 locales adds
- approximately 250k. The collation data for all supported locales is
- roughly 180k. This may seem rather large to some -- but it is much smaller
- than the approximately 40 MB needed by Glibc to provide the same data. And
- if you don't need it, you can either disable locale support entirely, or
- enable a smaller set of locales.
-
- <p>
-
- This release also fixes <em>lots and lots</em> of bugs. The arm
- architecture support (I am embarrassed to note) was totally broken in the
- last release, but is now working as expected. A security problem (a
- buffer overflow in getlogin_r) was fixed. And there were architecture
- updates across the board (x86, arm, powerpc, cris, h8300, sparc, and mips).
- And of course, this release includes the usual pile of bug fixes. Many
- thanks for the large number of patches and fixes that were contributed!
-
- <p>
-
- Unfortunately, this release is not binary compatible with earlier uClibc
- releases. As noted as item 3 <a href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">here</a>,
- uClibc does not (yet) attempt to
- ensure binary compatibility across releases. We will eventually do that
- (once we reach the "1.0" release) but not yet. A few bugs turned up that
- needed to be fixed, and the only good way to fix them was to change some
- fundamental data structure sizes. As a result, this release is _NOT_
- binary compatible with earlier releases -- you will need to recompile your
- applications. The x86, arm, powerpc, and mips architectures (i.e. the
- systems Erik has available in his office for testing) have been tested and
- are known to work following this change. Other architectures <em>may</em>
- need additional updates. Sorry about that, but it had to be done.
-
- <p>
- As usual, the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2">source code</a>
- for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
- You might want to download uClibc from the closest
- <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
- Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
- http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
- to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.
- <p>
-
<p> <li> <b>Old News</b>