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-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org">uClibc</a> (aka µClibc/pronounced yew-see-lib-see)
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-is a C library for embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller then the
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-<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C Library</a>, but
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-nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc.
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-Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just recompiling
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-the source code. uClibc supports standard Linux architectures (such as x86,
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-strongArm, and powerpc), and also supports
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+<a href="http://www.uclibc.org">uClibc</a> (aka µClibc/pronounced
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+yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for developing embedded Linux systems.
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+It is much smaller then the
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+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C Library</a>,
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+but nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with
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+uClibc. Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves
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+just recompiling the source code. uClibc even supports shared libraries
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+and threading. It currently runs on standard Linux and
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<a href="http://www.uclinux.org">MMU-less (also known as µClinux)</a>
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-architectures such as the Coldfire, Dragonball, and ARM7TDMI micro-controllers.
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+systems with support for ARM, i386, h8300, m68k, mips, mipsel, PowerPC,
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+SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
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+<p>
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+
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If you are building an embedded Linux system and you find that glibc is
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eating up too much space, you should consider using uClibc. If you are
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building a huge fileserver with 12 Terabytes of storage, then using
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glibc may be a better choice...
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<p>
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-<p>
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uClibc is maintained by
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<a href="http://www.codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik Andersen</a>
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and is licensed under the
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@@ -130,12 +132,12 @@ To subscribe, go and visit
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CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
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uClibc 0.9.11. This release is primarily focused on fixing the issues that
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have turned up since the last release. Several bugs in the gcc wrapper
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- have been fixed, allowing things like iproute2 and XFree86 to link properly
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- now. Large file support has been improved, and a thread locking bug was
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+ have been fixed, allowing applications such as iproute2 and XFree86 to link properly.
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+ Large file support has been improved, and a thread locking bug was
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fixed that could cause s*printf calls to deadlock when threading was
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enabled. Several bugs were also fixed with the powerpc, h8300, m68k,
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sparc, and mips architecture support. Many additional applications now
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- compile and run perfectly and have been added to the end of the <a
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+ compile and run perfectly and have been added to the <a
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href="uClibc-apps.html">working applications list</a> .
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<p>
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The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
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Eric Andersen