From ab596ff8493fbc1cd1fb8b6c6064800b9c70cee7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:49:08 +0000
Subject: Add a toolchain section.  Mention Steven J. Hill's mips RPMs.

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 	<ul>
     
+    <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.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">
+    i386 development system image</a>, the 
+    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/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.uclibc.org/downloads/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.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">
+    i386 development system image</a> to fix these problems.
+    Also, the <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/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.uclibc.org/downloads/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>
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