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diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/index.html b/docs/uclibc.org/index.html index 1eac84d30..50a2d89b7 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/index.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/index.html @@ -112,35 +112,7 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives... <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> diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html b/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html index 618a1940d..f42763fa7 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html @@ -53,6 +53,122 @@ <ul> <p> + <li> <b>17 February 2003, development system updates</b> + <br> + + The uClibc development systems for + <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> + 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.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> + <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> |