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- <h3>Frequently Asked Questions</h3>
- This is a collection of some of the most frequently asked questions
- about uClibc. Some of the questions even have answers. If you
- have additions to this FAQ document, we would love to add them,
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#naming">Why is it called uClibc?</a>
- <li><a href="#platforms">What platforms does uClibc run on?</a>
- <li><a href="#why">Why are you doing this? What's wrong with glibc?</a>
- <li><a href="#doesnt_suck">So uClibc is smaller then glibc? Doesn't that mean it
- completely sucks? How could it be smaller and not suck?</a>
- <li><a href="#why_should_i">Why should I use uClibc?</a>
- <li><a href="#licensing">If I use uClibc, do I have to release all my source code to the world for
- free? I want to create a closed source commercial application and I want
- to protect my intellectual property.</a>
- <li><a href="#development">Can I use it on my x86 development system?</a>
- <li><a href="#shared"> Does uClibc support shared libraries?</a>
- <li><a href="#compiling">How do I compile programs with uClibc?</a>
- <li><a href="#toolchain">Do I really need to build a uClibc toolchain?</a>
- <li><a href="#wrapper">What happened to the old toolchain wrapper?</a>
- <li><a href="#dev_systems">Is a pre-compiled uClibc development system available?</a>
- <li><a href="#bugs">I think I found a bug in uClibc! What should I do?!</a>
- <li><a href="#miscompile">My package builds fine but link fails with errors like "undefined reference
- to __fputc_unlocked", who do I blame?!</a>
- <li><a href="#gnu_malloc">My package builds fine but link fails with errors like "undefined reference
- to rpl_realloc / rpl_malloc", who do I blame?!</a>
- <li><a href="#job_control">Why do I keep getting "sh: can't access tty; job control
- turned off" errors? Why doesn't Control-C work within my shell?</a>
- <li><a href="#autoconf">How do I make autoconf and automake behave?</a>
- <li><a href="#ldd">When I run 'ldd' to get a list of the library dependencies
- for a uClibc binary, ldd segfaults! What should I do?</a>
- <li><a href="#timezones">Why does localtime() return times in UTC even when I have my timezone set?</a>
- <li><a href="#history">What is the history of uClibc? Where did it come from?</a>
- <li><a href="#demanding">I demand that you to add <favorite feature> right now! How come
- you don't answer all my questions on the mailing list instantly? I demand
- that you help me with all of my problems <em>Right Now</em>!</a>
- <li><a href="#helpme">I need help with uClibc! What should I do?</a>
- <li><a href="#contracts">I need you to add <favorite feature>! Are the uClibc developers willing to
- be paid in order to fix bugs or add in <favorite feature>? Are you willing to provide
- support contracts?</a>
- <li><a href="#support">I think you guys are great and I want to help support your work!</a>
- </ol>
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="naming">Why is it called uClibc?</a></h2>
- <p>
- The letter 'u' is short for µ (the greek letter "mu"). µ is commonly used
- as the abbreviation for the word "micro". The capital "C" is short for
- "controller". So the name uClibc is sortof an abbreviation for "the
- microcontroller C library". For simplicity, uClibc is pronounced
- "yew-see-lib-see".
- <p>
- The name is partly historical, since uClibc was originally
- created to support <a href="http://www.uclinux.org">µClinux</a>, a port of
- Linux for MMU-less microcontrollers such as the Dragonball, Coldfire, and
- ARM7TDMI. These days, uClibc also works just fine on normal Linux systems
- (such as i386, ARM, and PowerPC), but we couldn't think of a better name.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="platforms">What platforms does uClibc run on?</a></h2>
- <p>
- Currently uClibc runs on alpha, ARM, cris, i386, i960, h8300,
- m68k, mips/mipsel, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="why">Why are you doing this? What's wrong with glibc?</a></h2>
- <p>
- Initially, the project began since the GNU C library lacked support for
- MMU-less systems, and because glibc is very large. The GNU C library is
- designed with a very different set of goals then uClibc. The GNU C library
- is a great piece of software, make no mistake. It is compliant with just
- about every standard ever created, and runs on just about every operating
- system and architecture -- no small task! But there is a price to be paid
- for that. It is quite a large library, and keeps getting larger with each
- release. It does not even pretend to target embedded systems. To quote
- from Ulrich Drepper, the maintainer of GNU libc: "...glibc is not the right
- thing for [an embedded OS]. It is designed as a native library (as opposed
- to embedded). Many functions (e.g., printf) contain functionality which is
- not wanted in embedded systems." 24 May 1999
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="doesnt_suck">So uClibc is smaller then glibc? Doesn't that mean it completely sucks?
- How could it be smaller and not suck?</a></h2>
- <p>
- <p>
- uClibc and glibc have different goals. glibc strives for features
- and performance, and is targeted for desktops and servers with
- (these days) lots of resources. It also strives for ABI stability.
- <p>
- On the other hand, the goal of uClibc is to provide as much functionality
- as possible in a small amount of space, and it is intended primarily for
- embedded use. It is also highly configurable in supported features, at the
- cost of ABI differences for different configurations. uClibc has been
- designed from the ground up to be a C library for embedded Linux. We don't
- need to worry about things like MS-DOS support, or BeOS, or AmigaOs any
- other system. This lets us cut out a lot of complexity and very carefully
- optimize for Linux.
- <p>
- In other cases, uClibc leaves certain features (such as full C99 Math
- library support, wordexp, IPV6, and RPC support) disabled by default.
- Those features can be enabled for people that need them, but are otherwise
- disabled to save space.
- <p>
- Some of the space savings in uClibc is obtained at the cost of performance,
- and some is due to sacrificing features. Much of it comes from aggressive
- refactoring of code to eliminate redundancy. In regards to locale data,
- elimination of redundant data storage resulted in substantial space
- savings. The result is a libc that currently includes the features needed
- by nearly all applications and yet is considerably smaller than glibc. To
- compare "apples to apples", if you take uClibc and compile in locale data
- for about 170 UTF-8 locales, then uClibc will take up about 570k. If you
- take glibc and add in locale data for the same 170 UTF-8 locales, you will
- need over 30MB!!!
- <p>
- The end result is a C library that will compile just about everything you
- throw at it, that looks like glibc to application programs when you
- compile, and is many times smaller.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="why_should_i">Why should I use uClibc?</a></h2>
- <p>
- I don't know if you should use uClibc or not. It depends on your needs.
- If you are building an embedded Linux system and you are tight on space, then
- using uClibc instead if glibc may be a very good idea.
- <p>
- 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 make more sense. Unless, for
- example, that 12 Terabytes will be Network Attached Storage and
- you plan to burn Linux into the system's firmware...
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="licensing">If I use uClibc, do I have to release all my source code to the world for
- free? I want to create a closed source commercial application and I want
- to protect my intellectual property.</a></h2>
- <p>
- No, you do not need to give away your application source code just because
- you use uClibc and/or run on Linux. uClibc is licensed under the <a
- href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">Lesser GPL</a> licence, just
- like the GNU C library (glibc). Please read this licence, or have a lawyer
- read this licence if you have any questions. Here is my brief summary...
- Using shared libraries makes complying with the license easy. You can
- distribute a closed source application which is linked with an unmodified
- uClibc shared library. In this case, you do not need to give away any
- source code for your application. Please consider sharing some of the
- money you make with us! :-)
- <p>
- If you make any changes to uClibc, and distribute uClibc or distribute any
- applications using your modified version, you must also distribute the
- source code for uClibc containing all of your changes.
- <p>
- If you distribute an application which has uClibc statically linked, you
- must also make your application available as an object file which can later
- be re-linked against updated versions of uClibc. This will (in theory)
- allow your customers to apply uClibc bug fixes to your application. You do
- not need to make the application object file available to everyone, just to
- those you gave the fully linked application.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="development">Can I use it on my x86 development system?</a></h2>
- <p>
- Sure! In fact, this can be very nice during development. By
- installing uClibc on your development system, you can be sure that
- the code you are working on will actually run when you deploy it on
- your target system.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="shared"> Does uClibc support shared libraries?</a></h2>
- <p>
- Yes. uClibc has native shared library support on i386, ARM, mips,
- SH, CRIS, and PowerPC processors. Other architectures can use shared
- libraries but will need to use the GNU libc shared library loader.
- <p>
- Shared Libraries are not currently supported by uClibc on MMU-less systems.
- <a href="http://www.snapgear.com/">SnapGear</a> has implemented
- shared library support for MMU-less systems, however, so if you need MMU-less
- shared library support they may be able to help.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="compiling">How do I compile programs with uClibc?</a></h2>
- <p>
- You will need to have your own uClibc toolchain. A toolchain consists
- of <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/">GNU binutils</a>,
- <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">the gcc compiler</a>, and uClibc, all
- built to produce binaries for your target system linked with uClibc.
- You can build your own native uClibc toolchain using the
- <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">uClibc buildroot system</a>.
- <p>
- To build your own uClibc toolchain, follow the following simple
- steps:
- <ul>
- <li> Point your web browser <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">here</a>,
- <li> Download of copy of buildroot
- <li> Unpack the tarball on your Linux system somewhere
- <li> Edit the Makefile as needed if you wish to change anything.
- <li> run 'unset CC'. Then run 'unset CXX'. Some Linux systems
- (i.e. Gentoo) set variables such as 'CC' in the system environment
- which really messes things up when cross compiling.
- <li> run 'make menuconfig'
- <li> Select the things you want to build. If you <em>only</em> want a
- toolchain, leave everything except the toolchain disabled.
- <li> save your buildroot configuration.
- <li> run 'make'
- <li> go eat a nice wholesome sandwich, drink a pop, call a friend,
- play a video game, and generally find something to do. While you
- are waiting, buildroot will download all the needed source code and
- then compile things up for you.
- <li> You should now have a shiny new toolchain, and maybe even a shiny
- new uClibc based root filesystem or development system, depending on
- the options you selected.
- </ul>
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="toolchain">Do I really need to build a uClibc toolchain?</a></h2>
- <p>
- Yes, you really do need to build a toolchain to produce uClibc binaries.
- We used to provide a toolchain wrapper, but that has been removed due to
- numerous problems. The uClibc developers have gone to a lot of trouble
- to produce the
- <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">uClibc buildroot system</a>,
- which makes it easy to build your own uClibc toolchain and/or an initial
- uClibc based system.
- <p>
- Feel free to take the gcc and binutils patches we provide and use them in
- your own toolchain build system. If you choose to use your own toolchain
- build system, you will need to use these patches since the upstream GNU
- binutils and gcc releases do not currently have full support for building a
- uClibc toolchain.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="wrapper">What happened to the old toolchain wrapper?</a></h2>
- <p>
- It is possible in some limited cases to re-use an existing glibc toolchain
- and subvert it into building uClibc binaries by using gcc commands such as
- "-nostdlib" and "-nostdinc". In fact, this used to be the recommended
- method for compiling programs with uClibc, and we made this easy to do by
- providing a uClibc toolchain wrapper, which attempted to automagically subvert
- an existing glibc toolchain.
- <p>
- This toolchain wrapper was removed from uClibc 0.9.22, and it will not be
- coming back. This is because it proved impossible to completely subvert an
- existing toolchain in many cases, and therefore proved to be a real
- maintainence burder. As uClibc became more capable, the many problems with
- re-using an existing glibc toolchain led us to conclude that the only safe
- and sane way to build uClibc binaries was to use a uClibc toolchain.
- <p>
- Some discussion on the reasoning behind this decision can be found here:
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2003-October/007315.html">
- http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2003-October/007315.html</a>
- in the uClibc mailing list archives.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="dev_systems">Is a pre-compiled uClibc development system available?</a></h2>
- <p>
- If you want to be <em>really</em> lazy and start using uClibc right away
- without needing to compile your own toolchain or anything, you can grab a
- pre-compiled uClibc development system. These are currently available for
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_arm.ext2.bz2">arm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_armeb.ext2.bz2">armeb</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_i386.ext2.bz2">i386</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_mips.ext2.bz2">mips</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_mipsel.ext2.bz2">mipsel</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_powerpc.ext2.bz2">powerpc</a>, and
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs_sh4.ext2.bz2">sh4</a>.
- <p>
- These are bzip2 compressed ext2 filesystems containing all the development
- software you need to build your own uClibc applications, including: bash, awk,
- make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh, gdb,
- strace, busybox, GNU coreutils, GNU tar, GNU grep, etc.
- <p>
- Each of these uClibc development systems was created using
- <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a>, specifically,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/buildroot.tar.bz2">buildroot.tar.bz2</a>
- along with <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/buildroot-sources">these sources</a>.
- <p>
- These development systems should provide pretty much everything you need to get
- started building your own applications with uClibc. Once you download one of
- these systems, you can then boot into it, loop mount it, dd it to a spare drive
- and use a tool such as resize2fs to make it fill a partition... Whatever works
- best for you.
- <p>
- The quickest way to get started using a root_fs image (using the i386
- platform as an example) is:
- <ul>
- <li>Download root_fs_i386.bz2 from uclibc.org</li>
- <li>bunzip2 root_fs_i386.bz2</li>
- <li>mkdir root_fs</li>
- <li>su root</li>
- <li>mount -o loop root_fs_i386 root_fs</li>
- <li>chroot root_fs /bin/su -</li>
- </ul>
- Type "exit" to end the chroot session and return to the host system.
- <p>
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="bugs">I think I found a bug in uClibc! What should I do?</a></h2>
- <p>
- If you find a problem with uClibc, please submit a detailed bug report to
- the uClibc mailing list at <a href="mailto:uclibc@mail.uclibc.org">
- uclibc@mail.uclibc.org</a>. Please do not send private email to Erik
- (the maintainer of uClibc) asking for private help unless you are planning
- on paying for consulting services. When we answer questions on the uClibc
- mailing list, it helps everyone, while private answers help only you...
- A well-written bug report should include an example that demonstrates the
- problem behaviors and enables anyone else to duplicate the bug on their own
- machine. For larger applications where it may prove difficult to provide
- an example application, we recommend that you use a tool such as gdb,
- strace, ltrace, and or valgrind to create a logfile showing the problem
- behavior.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="miscompile">My package builds fine but link fails with errors like
- "undefined reference to __fputc_unlocked", who do I blame?!</a></h2>
- <p>
- This error crops up when a build system mixes system headers (say glibc)
- with the target headers (say uClibc). Make sure your build system is not
- including extraneous include options (-I) and double check that it is using
- the correct compiler. Many build systems incorrectly force things like
- -I/usr/include or -I/usr/local/include or -I${prefix}/include (which usually
- just expands to -I/usr/include).
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="gnu_malloc">My package builds fine but link fails with errors like "undefined reference
- to rpl_realloc / rpl_malloc", who do I blame?!</a></h2>
- <p>
- This error crops up because you didn't enable MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT support.
- Configure scripts detect whether your libc supports "GNU malloc" features by
- seeing whether malloc(0) returns NULL (glibc malloc(0) will return a non NULL
- pointer). uClibc defaults to malloc(0) returning NULL so autoconf will assume
- malloc from your libc sucks and procede to try and compile the malloc replacement
- version in the gnulib addon. However, since not many packages include gnulib,
- they will fail to link with rpl_realloc / rpl_malloc errors. You could force
- configure to assume working behavior by exporting the variables 'jm_cv_func_working_malloc'
- (older autoconf) and 'ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull' (newer autoconf) to 'yes'
- before running `./configure`.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="job_control">Why do I keep getting "sh: can't access tty; job control
- turned off" errors? Why doesn't Control-C work within my shell?</a></h2>
- <p>
- This isn't really a uClibc question, but I'll answer it here anyways. Job
- control will be turned off since your shell can not obtain a controlling
- terminal. This typically happens when you run your shell on /dev/console.
- The kernel will not provide a controlling terminal on the /dev/console
- device. Your should run your shell on a normal tty such as tty1 or ttyS0
- and everything will work perfectly. If you <em>REALLY</em> want your shell
- to run on /dev/console, then you can hack your kernel (if you are into that
- sortof thing) by changing drivers/char/tty_io.c to change the lines where
- it sets "noctty = 1;" to instead set it to "0". I recommend you instead
- run your shell on a real console...
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="autoconf">How do I make autoconf and automake behave?</a></h2>
- <p>
- When you are cross-compiling, autoconf and automake are known to behave
- badly. This is because a large number of configure scripts (such as the
- one from openssh) try to actually execute applications that were cross
- compiled for your target system. This is bad, since of course these won't
- run, and this will also prevent your programs from compiling. You need to
- complain to the authors of these programs and ask them to fix their broken
- configure scripts.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="ldd">When I run 'ldd' to get a list of the library dependencies
- for a uClibc binary, ldd segfaults! What should I do?</a></h2>
- <p>
- Use the ldd that is built by uClibc, not your system's one. You can build
- uClibc'd ldd for your host system by going into the uClibc/utils/ directory
- in the uClibc source and running 'make ldd.host'.
- <p>
- When your system's ldd looks for library dependencies, it actually _runs_
- that program. This works fine -- usually. It generally will not work at
- all when you have been cross compiling (which is why ldd segfaults). The
- ldd program created by uClibc is cross platform and doesn't mind at all if
- it cannot execute the target program. If you use the uClibc version of
- 'ldd', it will do the right thing and produce correct results, even when it
- is used on cross compiled binaries.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="timezones">Why does localtime() return times in UTC even when I have my timezone set?</a></h2>
- <p>
- The uClibc time functions get timezone information from the TZ environment
- variable, as described in the Single Unix Specification Version 3. See
- <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html">
- http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html</a>
- for details on valid settings of TZ. For some additional examples, read
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2002-August/004010.html">
- http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2002-August/004010.html</a> in the uClibc
- mailing list archive.
- You can store the value of TZ in the file '/etc/TZ' and uClibc will then
- automagically use the specified setting.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="history">What is the history of uClibc? Where did it come from?</a></h2>
- <p>
- uClibc started off as a fork on the <a
- href="http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/">Linux-8086 C library</a>, which is
- part of the <a href="http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">elks project</a>.
- The Linux-8086 C library was, apparently, largely written from scratch but
- also borrowed code from libc4, glibc, some Atari library code, with bits
- and pieces from about 20 other places.
- <p>
- I had for some time been despairing over the state of C libraries in Linux.
- GNU libc, the standard, is very poorly suited to embedded systems and has
- been getting bigger with every release. I spent quite a bit of time
- looking over the available Open Source C libraries that I knew of, and none
- of them really impressed me. I felt there was a real vacancy in the
- embedded Linux ecology. The closest library to what I imagined an embedded
- C library should be was uClibc. But it had a lot of problems too -- not
- the least of which was that, traditionally, uClibc required a complete
- source tree fork in order to support each and every new platform. This
- resulted in a big mess of twisty versions, all different. I decided to fix
- it and the result is what you see here.
- <p>
- To start with, (with some initial help from <a
- href="http://www.uclinux.org/developers/">D. Jeff Dionne</a>), I ported
- uClibc to run on i386. I then grafted in the header files from glibc and
- cleaned up the resulting breakage. This (plus some additional work) has
- made it much less dependant on kernel headers, a large departure from its
- traditional tightly-coupled-to-the-kernel origins. I have written and/or
- rewritten a number of things that were missing or broken, and sometimes
- grafted in bits of code from the current glibc and libc5. I have also
- added a proper configuration system which allows you to easily select your
- target architecture and enable and disable various features. Many people
- have helped by testing, contributing ports to new architectures, and adding
- support for missing features.
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- In particular, around the end of 2000, Manuel Novoa III got involved with
- uClibc. One of his first contributions was the original gcc wrapper (which
- has since been removed). Since then, he has written virtually all of the
- current uClibc stdio, time, string, ctype, locale, and wchar-related code,
- as well as much of stdlib and various other bits throught the library.
- <p>
- These days, uClibc is being developed and enhanced by Erik Andersen
- and Manuel Novoa III of
- <a href="http://codepoet-consulting.com/">CodePoet Consulting</a>
- along with the rest of the embedded Linux community.
- <hr />
- <p>
- <h2><a name="demanding">I demand that you to add <favorite feature> right now! How come
- you don't answer all my questions on the mailing list instantly? I demand
- that you help me with all of my problems <em>Right Now</em>!</a></h2>
- <p>
- You have not paid us a single cent and yet you still have the
- product of several years of work from Erik and Manuel and
- many other people. We are not your slaves! We work on uClibc
- because we find it interesting. If you go off flaming us, we will
- ignore you.
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- <p>
- <h2><a name="helpme">I need help with uClibc! What should I do?</a></h2>
- <p>
- If you find that you need help with uClibc, you can ask for help on the
- uClibc mailing list at uclibc@mail.uclibc.org. In addition to the uClibc
- mailing list, Erik and Manuel are also known to sometimes hang out on the
- uClibc IRC channel: #uclibc on irc.freenode.net.
- <p>
- <b>Please do not send private email to Erik and/or Manuel asking for
- private help unless you are planning on paying for consulting services.</b>
- When we answer questions on the uClibc mailing list, it helps everyone
- since people with similar problems in the future will be able to get help
- by searching the mailing list archives. Private help is reserved as a paid
- service. If you need to use private communication, or if you are serious
- about getting timely assistance with uClibc, you should seriously consider
- paying for consulting time.
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- <h2><a name="contracts">I need you to add <favorite feature>! Are the uClibc developers willing to
- be paid in order to fix bugs or add in <favorite feature>? Are you willing to provide
- support contracts?</a></h2>
- <p>
- Sure! Now you have our attention! What you should do is contact <a
- href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a> of <a
- href="http://codepoet-consulting.com/">CodePoet Consulting</a> to bid
- on your project. If Erik is too busy to personally add your feature, there
- are several other active uClibc contributors who will almost certainly be able
- to help you out. Erik can contact them and ask them about their availability.
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