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+ <p>
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+ <li> <b>25 January 2003, uClibc 0.9.17 Released</b>
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+ <br>
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+
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+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
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+ uClibc 0.9.17. The biggest piece of news with this release, thanks to
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+ Manuel Novoa's continuing hard work, is that we now have fully standards
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+ compliant locale support (optional of course). The support works nicely,
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+ (though configuring the locales you wish to support is still manual -- a
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+ task for the next release). Full locale data for over 300 locales adds
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+ approximately 250k. The collation data for all supported locales is
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+ roughly 180k. This may seem rather large to some -- but it is much smaller
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+ than the approximately 40 MB needed by Glibc to provide the same data. And
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+ if you don't need it, you can either disable locale support entirely, or
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+ enable a smaller set of locales.
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+
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+ <p>
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+
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+ This release also fixes <em>lots and lots</em> of bugs. The arm
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+ architecture support (I am embarrassed to note) was totally broken in the
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+ last release, but is now working as expected. A security problem (a
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+ buffer overflow in getlogin_r) was fixed. And there were architecture
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+ updates across the board (x86, arm, powerpc, cris, h8300, sparc, and mips).
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+ And of course, this release includes the usual pile of bug fixes. Many
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+ thanks for the large number of patches and fixes that were contributed!
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+
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+ <p>
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+
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+ Unfortunately, this release is not binary compatible with earlier uClibc
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+ releases. As noted as item 3 in <a
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+ href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">
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+ Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt</a>, uClibc does not (yet) attempt to
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+ ensure binary compatibility across releases. We will eventually do that
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+ (once we reach the "1.0" release) but not yet. A few bugs turned up that
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+ needed to be fixed, and the only good way to fix them was to change some
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+ fundamental data structure sizes. As a result, this release is _NOT_
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+ binary compatible with earlier releases -- you will need to recompile your
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+ applications. The x86, arm, powerpc, and mips architectures (i.e. the
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+ systems Erik has available in his office for testing) have been tested and
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+ are known to work following this change. Other architectures <em>may</em>
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+ need additional updates. Sorry about that, but it had to be done.
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+
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+ <p>
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+ As usual, the
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+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/Changelog">Changelog</a>
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+ and <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2">source code</a>
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+ for this release are available <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">here</a>.
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+ You might want to download uClibc from the closest
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+ <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
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+ Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
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+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
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+ http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
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+ to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.
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+ <p>
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+
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+ <p>
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+ <li> <b>25 January 2003, dev system updates, arm image released</b>
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+ <br>
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+
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+ A number of additional problems have been fixed and the arm build
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+ is now, finally, compiling and working as expected. As such,
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+ I have updated the <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-i386.bz2">
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+ i386 development system image</a>, the
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+ <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-powerpc.bz2">
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+ powerpc development system image</a>, and I am also releasing
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+ upon an unsuspecting world the brand new
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+ <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-arm.bz2">
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+ arm development system image</a>!
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+ Have fun!
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+ <p>
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+
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+ All three development system images were compiled and built using the stock
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+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> system. These were also
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+ built using the (about to be announced in a couple on minutes) uClibc
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+ 0.9.17 release, so if you want to begin compiling and testing stuff with
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+ uClibc, but you don't feel like spending the _hours_ it takes to download,
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+ configure, and build your own uClibc based development system -- then you
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+ may want to download these and give them a try. They each contain a 100 MB
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+ ext2 filesystem with everything you need to begin compiling your own
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+ applications. I have (at least minimally) tested each of them and verified
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+ that the included gcc and g++ compilers produce working uClibc linked
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+ executables.
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+
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+ <p>
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+ Oh, and I have also have updated the uClibc/gcc toolchain builders, so
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+ if you just want a simple uClibc/gcc toolchain,
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+ <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">one of these should work for you.</a>
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+ <p>
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+
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+
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<p>
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<li> <b>10 January 2003, dev system updates, powerpc image released</b>
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<br>
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A few problems showed up in yesterday's development system release
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(adduser was broken, gdb didn't work, libstdc++ shared libs were missing,
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- etc). So I've updated the <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17.pre-i386.bz2">
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+ etc). So I've updated the <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-i386.bz2">
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i386 development system image</a> to fix these problems.
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- Also, the <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17.pre-powerpc.bz2">
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- powerpc development system imagee</a> has finally finished compiling
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+ Also, the <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-powerpc.bz2">
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+ powerpc development system image</a> has finally finished compiling
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and is now released upon an unsuspecting world. Have fun!
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<p>
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@@ -144,7 +236,7 @@ you might want to search the mailing list archives...
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<p>
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- The <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17.pre-i386.bz2">
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+ The <a href="ftp://ftp.uclibc.org/uClibc/root_fs_0.9.17-i386.bz2">
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uClibc development system is an 18MB bzip2 compressed ext2 filesystem</a>,
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so be prepared to wait if you are on a slow link. If you wish to have more
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space, you can loop mount it and 'cp -a' the contents to their own
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hard drive (in my case /dev/hdg but you'll want to adapt this to your own
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needs), so I partitioned it with a single ext2 partition filling the drive
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(in my case /dev/hdg1). Then I ran:<PRE>
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- bzcat root_fs_0.9.17.pre-i386.bz2 | dd of=/dev/hdg1
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+ bzcat root_fs_0.9.17-i386.bz2 | dd of=/dev/hdg1
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e2fsck -f /dev/hdg1
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resize2fs -p /dev/hdg1</PRE>
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