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diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html b/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html index 452edbedf..39861a018 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html @@ -80,39 +80,6 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a> <p> <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left> <B> - Can I use it on my desktop i386 system? - </B> -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> - - Sure! In fact, this can be very nice during development. By - installing uClibc on your development system, you can be sure that - the code you are working on will actually run when you deploy it - your target system. - - - -<p> -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left> - <B> - Does uClibc support shared libraries? - </B> -</TD></TR> -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> - - Yes. uClibc has native shared library support on i386, ARM, mips/mipsel, - SH, and PowerPC processors. Other architectures can use shared libraries - but will need to use the GNU libc shared library loader. - <p> - Shared Libraries are not currently supported by uClibc on MMU-less systems. - <a href="http://www.snapgear.com/">SnapGear</a> has implemented - shared library support for MMU-less systems, however, so if you need MMU-less - shared library support they may be able to help. - - -<p> -<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left> - <B> Why are you doing this? What's wrong with glibc? </B> </TD></TR> @@ -223,6 +190,39 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a> <p> <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left> <B> + Can I use it on my desktop i386 system? + </B> +</TD></TR> +<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> + + Sure! In fact, this can be very nice during development. By + installing uClibc on your development system, you can be sure that + the code you are working on will actually run when you deploy it + your target system. + + + +<p> +<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left> + <B> + Does uClibc support shared libraries? + </B> +</TD></TR> +<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> + + Yes. uClibc has native shared library support on i386, ARM, mips/mipsel, + SH, CRIS, and PowerPC processors. Other architectures can use shared libraries + but will need to use the GNU libc shared library loader. + <p> + Shared Libraries are not currently supported by uClibc on MMU-less systems. + <a href="http://www.snapgear.com/">SnapGear</a> has implemented + shared library support for MMU-less systems, however, so if you need MMU-less + shared library support they may be able to help. + + +<p> +<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left> + <B> How do I compile programs with uClibc? </B> </TD></TR> diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/index.html b/docs/uclibc.org/index.html index a0cddb69f..cf66f5abc 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/index.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/index.html @@ -110,17 +110,109 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives... <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> <ul> + + <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 in <a + href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt"> + Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt</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.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/Changelog">Changelog</a> + and <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2">source code</a> + for this release are available <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">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="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-i386.bz2"> + i386 development system image</a>, the + <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-powerpc.bz2"> + powerpc development system image</a>, and I am also releasing + upon an unsuspecting world the brand new + <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-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="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17.pre-i386.bz2"> + etc). So I've updated the <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-i386.bz2"> i386 development system image</a> to fix these problems. - Also, the <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17.pre-powerpc.bz2"> - powerpc development system imagee</a> has finally finished compiling + Also, the <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-powerpc.bz2"> + powerpc development system image</a> has finally finished compiling and is now released upon an unsuspecting world. Have fun! <p> @@ -144,7 +236,7 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives... <p> - The <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17.pre-i386.bz2"> + The <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-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 @@ -154,7 +246,7 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives... 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_0.9.17.pre-i386.bz2 | dd of=/dev/hdg1 + bzcat root_fs_0.9.17-i386.bz2 | dd of=/dev/hdg1 e2fsck -f /dev/hdg1 resize2fs -p /dev/hdg1</PRE> |