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+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>9 September 2003, uClibc 0.9.21 Released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ uClibc 0.9.21. This release has been brewing for several months now, and
+ provides quite a lot of additional functionality and quite a few bug fixes
+ as well. Many people will be pleased that this release fixes the
+ "dlopen()'ing libraries that depend on libraries" problem.
+
+ <p>
+
+ The biggest thing in this release (and I do mean that literally) is that
+ uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support. Well, except for
+ wcsftime() and collating items in regex, which are not done yet. Adding
+ support for the default set of locales (169 UTF-8 locales and 144 locales
+ using other codesets) will enlarge uClibc by around 300k. Still, if you
+ need locale support, that is still much better than the roughly 30MB the
+ comparable set of locale date occupies with glibc. And you can of course
+ reduce the 300k by reducing the number of supported locales.
+
+ <p>
+
+ As usual, this release has many improvements, both large and small. At
+ this point, most applications that compile and work with glibc will also
+ compile and run with uClibc. Both Perl and Python pass all the tests in
+ their test suites (both with and without locale support enabled). We
+ invite you to grab a copy of the latest <a
+ href="http://ltp.sourceforge.net/"> Linux Test Project test suite</a> and
+ give uClibc some abuse. We are not yet perfect, but we are getting pretty
+ darn close.
+
+ <p>
+
+ This release is not binary compatible with earlier releases. Depending on
+ your configuration, you may actually still be binary compatible, but it
+ would be a good idea to recompile your applications when moving to the
+ uClibc 0.9.21 release. We are sorry about that, but we have never promised
+ to provide binary compatibility until we hit version 1.0. And even then,
+ if you change your uClibc configuration, you still still generally need to
+ recompile...
+
+ <p>
+
+ As usual, the
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>,
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.21.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
+ are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
+
+ <p>
+
+ Updated uClibc development systems using uClibc 0.9.21 will be made
+ available within a few days.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>30 June 2003, uClibc 0.9.20 Released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ uClibc 0.9.20. This is primarily a bug-fix release. This release remains
+ binary compatible with 0.9.18 and 0.9.19 (as long as you leave the
+ new UCLIBC_HAS_TM_EXTENSIONS option disabled), so you don't have to recompile
+ everything if you don't really feel like it.
+ <p>
+
+ This release has many small improvements. At this point, most applications
+ that compile and work with glibc will also compile and run with uClibc.
+ Perl and Python even pass all the tests in their test suites.
+ <p>
+
+ There is currently one notable exception. Applications that use dlopen()
+ to load libraries that themselves depend on other libraries, may have weak
+ symbols within those depended-upon libraries resolved incorrectly. This
+ problem is currently being worked on. Other than that, everything seems
+ to now be working as expected....
+
+ <p>
+ As usual, the
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>,
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.20.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
+ are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>30 June 2003, dev systems updated to uClibc 0.9.20</b>
+ <br>
+
+ The uClibc development systems for
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,
+ have been updated to uClibc 0.9.20. Several problems have been fixed up,
+ gcc has been updated to version 3.3, and Perl 5.8.0 is now included.
+ <p>
+
+ This is a 150 MB 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 perl,
+ 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 you should give these images a try. You can loop mount and then
+ chroot into them, you can boot into them using user-mode Linux, and you can
+ even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to make them fill the
+ drive. Whatever works for you.
+
+ <p> If you would like to build your own custom uClibc system, you can
+ use <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a>, which is
+ how the uClibc development systems were created.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>6 March 2003, development system updates</b>
+ <br>
+
+ The uClibc development systems for
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,
+ and now for the first time
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,
+ have been updated to uClibc 0.9.19. Several smaller problems
+ have also been fixed up.
+ <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 you should give these images a try. You can loop mount and
+ then chroot into them, you can boot into them using user-mode Linux,
+ you can even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to
+ make them fill the drive. Whatever works best for you.
+ <p>
+
+ Have Fun.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <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 for this release</a>
+ are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
+ <p>
+
+
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>17 February 2003, development system updates</b>
+ <br>
+
+ The uClibc development systems for
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/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.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <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.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/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>
+ <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...)
+
+ <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>
+ 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>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>25 January 2003, dev system updates, arm image released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ A number of additional problems have been fixed and the arm build
+ is now, finally, compiling and working as expected. As such,
+ I have updated the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">
+ i386 development system image</a>, the
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">
+ powerpc development system image</a>, and I am also releasing
+ upon an unsuspecting world the brand new
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">
+ arm development system image</a>!
+ Have fun!
+ <p>
+
+ All three development system images were compiled and built using the stock
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> system. These were also
+ built using the (about to be announced in a couple on minutes) uClibc
+ 0.9.17 release, so if you want to begin compiling and testing stuff with
+ uClibc, but you don't feel like spending the _hours_ it takes to download,
+ configure, and build your own uClibc based development system -- then you
+ may want to download these and give them a try. They each contain a 100 MB
+ ext2 filesystem with everything you need to begin compiling your own
+ applications. I have (at least minimally) tested each of them and verified
+ that the included gcc and g++ compilers produce working uClibc linked
+ executables.
+
+ <p>
+ Oh, and I have also have updated the uClibc/gcc toolchain builders, so
+ if you just want a simple uClibc/gcc toolchain,
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">one of these should work for you.</a>
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>10 January 2003, dev system updates, powerpc image released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ A few problems showed up in yesterday's development system release
+ (adduser was broken, gdb didn't work, libstdc++ shared libs were missing,
+ etc). So I've updated the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">
+ i386 development system image</a> to fix these problems.
+ Also, the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">
+ powerpc development system image</a> has finally finished compiling
+ and is now released upon an unsuspecting world. Have fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>9 January 2003, uClibc development system released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has been working hard on <a
+ href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> recently, and is pleased to
+ offer a full stand-alone uClibc-only development system. This is an ext2
+ filesystem for i386 containing all the development software you need to
+ build your own uClibc applications. With bash, awk, make, gcc, g++,
+ autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh, gdb, strace, valgrind,
+ busybox, GNU coreutils, and more, this should have pretty much everything
+ you need to get started building your own applications 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. A powerpc and an arm version are in progress. Expect them
+ to be released shortly....
+
+ <p>
+
+ The <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">
+ uClibc development system is an 18MB bzip2 compressed ext2 filesystem</a>,
+ so be prepared to wait if you are on a slow link. If you wish to have more
+ space, you can loop mount it and 'cp -a' the contents to their own
+ partition, or do what I did... <EM>WARNING, the following can be very
+ dangerous. Please be sure you know what you are doing before trying this.
+ I am not responsible if you lose all your important data.</EM>I had a spare
+ hard drive (in my case /dev/hdg but you'll want to adapt this to your own
+ needs), so I partitioned it with a single ext2 partition filling the drive
+ (in my case /dev/hdg1). Then I ran:<PRE>
+ bzcat root_fs_i386.bz2 | dd of=/dev/hdg1
+ e2fsck -f /dev/hdg1
+ resize2fs -p /dev/hdg1</PRE>
+
+ which overwrote everything on /dev/hdg with the new uClibc devel system,
+ and then expanded the filesystem with the uClibc devel system till it
+ filled the whole drive.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>8 November 2002, uClibc 0.9.16 Released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ uClibc 0.9.16. This release adds full support (including a native shared
+ library loader) for the CRIS architecture, contributed by Tobias Anderberg.
+ Stefan Allius contributed a number of patches to fix the initialization
+ order for shared library global constructors and destructors as well as a
+ large number of SuperH fixes and cleanups. uClibc now compiles with
+ newer versions of gcc (i.e. RedHat 8.0). Thanks to Christian Michon,
+ uClibc no longer requires perl to compile. Steven J. Hill fixed dlopen for
+ mips. Several problems with pty and tty handling were fixed. Manuel Novoa
+ added new support for an /etc/TZ file to globally set the system timezone,
+ and fixed up a number of remaining wide char issues. Manuel is still hard
+ at work on bringing full locale support (optional of course) to uClibc.
+ 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>
+
+ Erik and Manuel have been working on a
+ <a href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">
+ document describing some of the differences between uClibc and glibc.</a>
+ It's not yet 100% complete, and it hasn't been nicely formatted yet. But
+ it contains a lot of helpful information and is worth a look.
+ <p>
+
+ And finally, the the old uClibc configuration system has been completely
+ removed (and there was much rejoicing). It was replaced with an entirely
+ new system based on <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/">LinuxKernelConf</a>,
+ which has since been included into Linux 2.5.45, so it looks like Erik made
+ the right choice. Of course, those who have existing build systems using uClibc
+ will need to make a few changes... We think the change is worth it.
+ <p>
+ As usual, the
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.16.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>
+ Updated gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95 toolchains will be released shortly.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>16 September 2002, gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95 toolchains released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released updated gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95
+ uClibc toolchains. These toolchains build real gcc cross compilers (i.e.
+ not just a wrapper) and create executables linked vs uClibc. The new
+ gcc-3.2 provides uClibc support with the latest and greatest compiler
+ available from the gcc team. The gcc-2.95 toolchain has been updated to
+ the latest version of uClibc and now provides full C++ support, using the
+ <a href="http://www.stlport.org/">STLport</a> standard C++ library.
+ <p>
+
+ This toolchain should make it easy for anyone to build uClibc based
+ applications.
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/"> Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
+ Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on
+ when you compile the toolchains. To build a toolchain, simply
+ grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like
+ the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat
+ dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles. It takes
+ about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.2 toolchain (w/C++ support)
+ on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download
+ source code).
+ <p>
+
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>27 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.15 Released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability
+ of uClibc 0.9.15. This release fixes a number of problems that turned
+ up since the last release. The good news is that uClibc now
+ passes all tests in the perl 5.8 and Python 2.2.1 test suites, both with
+ and without pthreads. So without any further ado....
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.15.tar.bz2">source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
+ <p>
+ Have fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>12 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.14 Released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is slightly less pleased then usual to announce the
+ immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.14. This is, unfortunately, a bugfix
+ release intended to fix the couple of dumb things that slipped into the
+ previous release. Version 0.9.13 of uClibc would fail to compile when
+ enabling both RPC and Pthreads. There was also a problem with RPC thread
+ local storage (but noone noticed since it didn't compile ;-). Also, the
+ thread locking in exit(), onexit() and atexit() was broken, and wasn't
+ actually locking anything. This release also fixes uClibc's gcc wrapper
+ to use crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o when compiling PIC code, fixing a subtle
+ bug (that was much less subtle on powerpc). Finally, this release includes a
+ few minor compile warning cleanups.
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.14.tar.bz2">source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
+ <p>
+ Have fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <li> <b>12 August 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.1.1 toolchain released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released an updated native
+ uClibc/gcc-3.1.1 toolchain. This toolchain builds a real gcc cross
+ compiler (i.e. not just a wrapper) and creates executables linked vs
+ uClibc. This toolchain has been (briefly) tested as working on x86, arm,
+ mips, and arm7tdmi (uClinux). This toolchain provides a number of
+ improvements over previous releases. In particular, Steven J. Hill found
+ and fixes a number of "glibc-isms" in the libstdc++ math support which
+ caused a number of math functions to be mapped to the non-standard named
+ under GNU libc. This release also includes greatly improved uClinux
+ "elf2flt" support, and it now produces working flat binaries for my
+ uClinux/arm7tdmi system. The native uClibc/gcc-2.95 toolchain will be
+ updated in a few days, and will include STLport which will allow that
+ toolchain to also provide full C++ support.
+ <p>
+
+ This toolchain should make it easy for anyone to build uClibc based
+ applications.
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
+ Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on
+ demand when you compile things. To build the toolchain, simply
+ grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like
+ the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat
+ dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles. It takes
+ about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.1.1 toolchain (w/C++ support)
+ on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download
+ source code). Your results may vary...
+ <p>
+
+ <li> <b>9 August 2002, uClibc now mirrored on kernel.org!</b>
+ <br>
+ uClibc is now available from the kernel.org mirrors! This should make
+ uClibc downloads much faster. The kernel.org mirrors will have all
+ uClibc release versions (everything but the daily snapshots).
+ Here is a list of all the <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror sites</a>.
+ Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to "/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/"
+ to download uClibc.
+ 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 the latest
+ uClibc release from a nice fast system.
+ <p>
+ <p>
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>9 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.13 Released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ uClibc 0.9.13. After several days of testing, this release is looking very
+ solid. This release fixes three security vulnerabilites in previous
+ releases. There was an off-by-one buffer overflow in the group handling
+ code, and integer overflows in calloc() and xdr_array().
+ <p>
+
+ This release adds native shared library support for the Hitachi
+ SuperH architecture, thanks to Stefan Allius and Edie C. Dost. A
+ new mmap based malloc was implemented by Miles Bader. This is much
+ smarter than the old "malloc-simple" and is now the default for
+ mmu-less systems, where it should greatly help reduce memory
+ fragmentation and wastage. In addition to these larger items, there
+ has been a <em>lot</em> of work done to make uClibc a cleaner, more
+ capable, library. Most applications now compile and run without
+ any trouble.
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.13.tar.bz2">source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
+ <p>
+ Have fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <li> <b>11 July 2002, Native uClibc toolchains updated</b>
+ <br>
+ CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released updated native
+ uClibc/gcc-3.1 and uClibc/gcc-2.95 toolchains. These toolchains
+ build real gcc cross compilers (i.e. not just a wrapper) and create
+ executables linked vs uClibc. These toolchains have been tested
+ and found working on x86, arm, and mmu-less arm. They should work
+ (at least in theory!) for all architectures supported by uClibc.
+ <p>
+
+ These toolchains should make it easy to anyone to build uClibc based
+ applications.
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
+ Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on
+ demand when you compile things. To build the toolchain, simply
+ grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like
+ the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat
+ dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles. It takes
+ about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.1 toolchain (w/C++ support)
+ on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download
+ source code). Your results may vary...
+ <p>
+
+
+ <P>
+ <li> <b>20 June 2002, uClibc 0.9.12 Released</b>
+ <br>
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ uClibc 0.9.12. This release adds an i960 port, an initial alpha port,
+ fully working mips shared library support, shared library support fixes
+ for on powerpc, and many other improvements. One very exciting new feature
+ is nearly complete locale support, thanks to a lot of hard work by Manuel
+ Novoa III. uClibc's locale support is <em>much</em> smaller than glibc's,
+ though it is also slightly less flexible. This release was delayed by a
+ month due to the arrival of a new baby at Erik's house. For those that
+ have been anxiously waiting, this release should certainly be worth the
+ wait. Have fun!
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.12.tar.bz2">source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
+
+ <li> <b>28 May 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.1 toolchain</b>
+ <br>
+ CodePoet Consulting has released source code and a Makefile to build a
+ gcc-3.1 toolchain that natively targets uClibc. Additionally, the
+ gcc-3.0.4 and gcc-2.95 toolchains have also been updated. These toolchains
+ make it easy to build uClibc based applications.
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
+ and is now much smaller,
+ since much of the needed binutils and gcc source code is now downloaded on
+ demand. To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile
+ to select where you would like the toolchain installed, and then run 'make'
+ and wait for it to compile.
+
+ <p>
+ <p><li> <b>10 April 2002, uClibc 0.9.11 Released</b>
+ <br>
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ uClibc 0.9.11. This release is primarily focused on fixing the issues that
+ have turned up since the last release. Several bugs in the gcc wrapper
+ have been fixed, allowing applications such as iproute2 and XFree86 to link properly.
+ Large file support has been improved, and a thread locking bug was
+ fixed that could cause s*printf calls to deadlock when threading was
+ enabled. Several bugs were also fixed with the powerpc, h8300, m68k,
+ sparc, and mips architecture support. Many additional applications now
+ compile and run perfectly and have been added to the <a
+ href="uClibc-apps.html">working applications list</a> .
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.11.tar.bz2">source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
+
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>10 April 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.0.4 toolchain</b>
+ <br>
+ CodePoet Consulting has released source code and a Makefile
+ to build a gcc-3.0.4 toolchain that natively targets uClibc.
+ This brings with it full C++ support for uClibc, including the
+ libstdc++ library. A gcc-2.95.x toolchain will also be released
+ shortly, but is not yet ready. At this time, only source code and
+ a Makefile for the native uClibc toolchain is being released (i.e.
+ no binaries, sorry).
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.
+ <p>
+ To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile
+ to select where you would like the toolchain installed. Then
+ run 'make' and wait for it to compile. If you do not have a copy
+ of uClibc already, it will download the latest daily snapshot.
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>21 March 2002, uClibc 0.9.10 Released!</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate
+ availability of uClibc 0.9.10. This release adds pthreads support
+ (including pthreads support for mmu-less systems!). Additionally,
+ thanks to Manuel Novoa III, we now have a completely new stdio
+ library, which is small, standards compliant, supports pthreads,
+ wide/narrow streams, large files, and can even operate in a
+ low-memory unbuffered mode. Many, many bugs have been fixed and a
+ number of additional applications now compile and run perfectly.
+ Even with all these changes, uClibc continues to be very small.
+ On x86, a default build of the uClibc C library is still just 168k.
+
+ <p>
+
+ To make things more interesting, the release also adds support for
+ C++ constructors and destructors. To make it easy to use uClibc
+ when developing C++ applications, this release also provides a
+ wrapper for the GNU C++ compiler. Of course, for more complex C++
+ applications, such as those using iostreams, a standard C++ library
+ (libstdc++) is required. A native GNU toolchain (binutils/gcc) that
+ provides libstdc++ linked with uClibc 0.9.10 will be released in the
+ next couple of days, so stay tuned.
+
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.10.tar.bz2">Source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>4 February 2002, uClibc 0.9.9 Released!</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate
+ availability of uClibc 0.9.9. With this release,
+ <a href="uClibc-apps.html">just about
+ everything we have tested now compiles and runs</a>. In fact,
+ there are now so many programs on the working application list that
+ rather than continue to add to this list, from now on we
+ will only be adding applications to the <em>not working list</em>. Most applications
+ on the <em>not working list</em> either require pthreads, or require
+ wide-character support. Work on wide-character support is
+ well underway, and will hopefully be moving into CVS in the next week or
+ two. Full pthreads support and rentrancy are on the TODO list
+ and are expected to be complete in the next couple of months.
+ <p>
+ The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a
+ href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.9.tar.bz2">Source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
+ <p>
+ One final bit on news -- as some of you may have noticed, uclibc.org
+ has been a bit overloaded and somewhat slow recently. The server should
+ be getting colocated tomorrow, which will eliminate the speed problem.
+ During the move, there may be some temporary disruption of service...
+ <p>
+ Have Fun!
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>22 December 2001, uClibc 0.9.8 Released!</b>
+ <br>
+
+ After many months of initial development, we are pleased to announce the
+ release of uClibc 0.9.8. This release should be quite solid, and is very
+ usable. This also, hopefully, marks a transition from a slow incubation
+ phase to a more methodical release cycle. From now one, there should be
+ approximately one release per month.
+ <p>
+ The source code for this release is available
+ <a href="downloads/">here</a>.
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>26 November 2001, powerpc shared libraries fully working</b>
+ <br>
+ Dave Schleef finished off the the work needed for shared library support on
+ powerpc. There had been a few problems remaining, and those are now squashed.
+ So shared libs on powerpc should be working fully now.
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>14 November 2001, m68 compiles again, Large file support working</b>
+ <br>
+ About a month ago I synced the header files with glibc 2.2.4 for better
+ C++ support and better standards compliance. I forgot to sync up m68k,
+ sparc, powerpc, and mipsel. Dave Schleef fixed powerpc while he was fixing
+ up the shared lib loader. I just fixed up m68k, sparc, and mipsel so they
+ should all compile again.
+ <p>
+ I also finished up fixing large file support (just enable DOLFS in your
+ Config file to enable it) and it is working just great, and greatly increases
+ the number of glibc applications that will work "out-of-the-tarball" without
+ needing any changes.
+
+
+ <li> <b>12 November 2001, powerpc shared lib support</b>
+ <br>
+ Thanks to David Schleef, uClibc now has full shared library support
+ on powerpc. This brings full shared library support to x86, ARM, and
+ now powerpc. Thanks Dave!
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>7 November 2001, uClibc application list</b>
+ <br>
+ uClibc now has a <a href="uClibc-apps.html">list of applications</a>
+ that are known to work. If you have any applications to add to the
+ list, submissions are welcome!
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>18 October 2001, buildroot uClibc example system</b>
+ <br>
+
+ Those wanting an easy way to test out uClibc and give it
+ a test drive can download and compile
+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a>.
+ This is a nifty buildsystem that will automagically download and build
+ a <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
+ kernel, and will then download source for and compile up a fully
+ working uClibc based root filesystem. This should make it easy for
+ people to create their own projects. I hope that this build system
+ will allow people to more easily use and build uClibc based systems.
+ As an example of how nicely this works, the
+ <a href="http://tuxscreen.net/">Tuxscreen Project</a> is using a
+ <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxscreen/buildroot-tux/">slightly adjusted variant of the buildroot system</a> to cross
+ compile the blob bootloader, linux kernel, and a uClibc based jffs2
+ root filesystem (busybox, tinylogin, udhcp, lrzsz, pcmcia-cs and
+ microwindows) for ARM. Pretty cool.
+
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>11 October 2001, v850 architecture support</b>
+ <br>
+
+ Miles Bader has contributed support for the v850 architecture.
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>25 Spetember 2001, header files updated</b>
+ <br>
+
+ uClibc's header files are now in sync with glibc 2.2.4,
+ allowing better standards compliance, better portibility, and
+ better C++ support.
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>4 July 2001, ARM shared library support</b>
+ <br>
+
+ uClibc now has full shared library support on ARM.
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>9 May 2001, libm added</b>
+ <br>
+
+ uClibc now has a very complete math library.
+
+
+ <p>
+ <p> <li> <b>9 May 2001, ld.so added</b>
+ <br>
+
+ uClibc now has a native ld.so. It currently is only ported to work on x86,
+ but porting to other architectures should not be too difficult.
+
+
+ <p> <li> <b>15 March 2001, powerpc port added</b>
+ <br>
+
+ David Schleef contributed a powerpc port, which is now in CVS.
+
+ <p> <li> <b>19 February 2001, SH port added</b>
+ <br>
+
+ Jean-Yves Avenard contributed an SH port. See his email
+ with the initial patch <a href="/lists/uclibc/2001-February/000409.html">here</a>.
+
+ <p> <li> <b>16 January 2001, uClibc as a shared library</b>
+ <br>
+
+ As if January 16, uClibc can now be used (at least on x86) as a shared
+ library. See the <a href="/lists/uclibc/2001-January/000126.html">email</a>
+ announcing this achievement.
+
+ <p> <li> <b>11 January 2001, gcc wrapper added</b>
+ <br>
+
+ Manuel Novoa III has created a wrapper for gcc that makes compiling apps vs uClibc
+ as simple as just setting "CC" to gcc-uClibc-&lt arch&gt. This even works when cross
+ compiling! Very cool.
+
+ <p> <li> <b>3 January 2001, uClibc now has a web page</b>
+ <br>
+
+ A lot of work has been going on under the hood with uClibc,
+ so I decided to put together this webpage to let the world know
+ that it exists and is getting to be usable.
+
+</ul>
+
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