Embedded C library http://uclibc-ng.org

Eric Andersen 4c316e6c2c Add missing quotes 22 éve
debian 4454965953 update to last Debian upload. Dumbass Debian maintainer forgets to check 22 éve
docs 46f635563d Don't link to us.kernel.org 22 éve
extra 6d3b79787e fix typo 22 éve
include 25288a6fcc Make sure we have __linux__ defined 22 éve
ldso 4c316e6c2c Add missing quotes 22 éve
libc 8406059b60 Patch from Stefan Allius for libgcc multilib support 22 éve
libcrypt cf0a78c882 Cleanup crypt and remove the crypt_r stuff, since SuSv3 22 éve
libm 2a0977528a Patch from Simon Rowe to try and build asm libm code 22 éve
libpthread ee1c13e232 Standardize LIBGCC_DIR 22 éve
libresolv 9d37b6ca1c Stupid cut-n-paste error 22 éve
libutil 6737908f74 Ok, this commit is _huge_ and its gonna change the world. I've 22 éve
test 6eb9daddc5 Add in 'ldso' to directory list since 'make clean' was not recursing 22 éve
.cvsignore 6737908f74 Ok, this commit is _huge_ and its gonna change the world. I've 22 éve
COPYING.LIB 64bc641218 Initial revision 24 éve
Changelog 9dfd7d434e Final update for 0.9.16 22 éve
Changelog.full 9dfd7d434e Final update for 0.9.16 22 éve
INSTALL 8d6489ff23 Update the docs 22 éve
Makefile 51da40e78d Patch from Stefan Allius, rebuild extra/config/conf if it is missing 22 éve
README 8d6489ff23 Update the docs 22 éve
Rules.mak c159d8fb27 For arm use -mcpu for the moment, since it seems to work 22 éve
TODO 2ddc1bf2d5 Update TODO items 22 éve

README


uClibc - a Small C Library for Linux
Erik Andersen

uClibc (aka Clibc/pronounced yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for
developing embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller than the
GNU C Library, but nearly all applications supported by glibc
also work perfectly with uClibc. Porting applications from glibc
to uClibc typically involves just recompiling the source code.
uClibc even supports shared libraries and threading. It currently
runs on standard Linux and MMU-less (also known as Clinux)
systems with support for alpha, ARM, i386, i960, h8300, m68k,
mips/mipsel, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.

If you are building an embedded Linux system and you find that
glibc is eating up too much space, you should consider using
uClibc. If you are building a huge fileserver with 12 Terabytes
of storage, then using glibc may be a better choice...

uClibc is maintained by Erik Andersen and is licensed under the
GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE . This license allows you to
make closed source commercial applications using uClibc (Please
consider sharing some of the money you make ;-). You do not need
to give away all your source code just because you use uClibc
and/or run on Linux.


For installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.

This distribution contains a wrapper for gcc and ld that allows you
to use existing toolchains that were targetted for glibc. See
extra/gcc-uClibc/ for information.

uClibc strives to be standards compliant, which means that most
documentation written for functions in glibc also applies to uClibc
functions. However, many GNU extensions are not supported because
they have not been ported, or more importantly, would increase the
size of uClibc disproportional to the added functionality.

Additional information (recent releases, FAQ, mailing list, bugs,
etc.) can be found at http://www.uclibc.org/.

uClibc may be freely modified distributed under the terms of the
GNU Library General Public License, which can be found in the
file COPYING.LIB.

Please Note:

There is an unwholesomely huge amount of code out there
that depends on the presence of GNU libc header files.
We have GNU libc header files. So we have committed a
horrible sin in uClibc. We _lie_ and claim to be GNU
libc in order to force these applications to work as their
developers intended. This is IMHO, pardonable, since
these defines are not really intended to check for the
presence of a particular library, but rather are used to
define an _interface_. Some programs (such as GNU
binutils) are especially chummy with glibc, and may need
this behavior disabled by adding CFLAGS+=-D__FORCE_NOGLIBC