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Peter S. Mazinger 9e0d576d1f Kill warnings if IMA compiling		vor 19 Jahren
debian	3710e0790c install the manpages that are in the docs subdir	vor 19 Jahren
docs	a5aa1cd19f fix url	vor 19 Jahren
extra	6a98e3e5f6 Typo correction, thanks cow.	vor 19 Jahren
include	789db36ade Change in_addr_t inet_aton to int, glibc has it as int and uClibc uses it in addr.c also as int. Rename mylock/LOCK/UNLOCK in resolv.c to allow IMA compiling	vor 19 Jahren
ldso	5e48b8b628 Add the current implementation to review	vor 19 Jahren
libc	9e0d576d1f Kill warnings if IMA compiling	vor 19 Jahren
libcrypt	6533343415 Updated libcrypt example Makefile	vor 19 Jahren
libintl	5e48b8b628 Add the current implementation to review	vor 19 Jahren
libm	b6cfa5f080 2 more examples that show the handling of different objects in lib.so and lib.a, also handle arch specific optimized versions	vor 19 Jahren
libnsl	5e48b8b628 Add the current implementation to review	vor 19 Jahren
libpthread	286547d5c2 linuxthreads_db depends on PTHREADS_DEBUG_SUPPORT	vor 19 Jahren
libresolv	5e48b8b628 Add the current implementation to review	vor 19 Jahren
librt	5e48b8b628 Add the current implementation to review	vor 19 Jahren
libutil	5e48b8b628 Add the current implementation to review	vor 19 Jahren
test	f70602be19 Remove ar-target and shared targets, at build time now we traverse the tree only once. Generalize all toplevel makefiles. Make sure, that libdl.so is built against libc.so and not libc.a	vor 19 Jahren
utils	3a7ac9c7a7 Rewrote almost all Makefiles: do not use strip $(x),y; run strip on all objects at once; use :=//$</$^; use CRT_SRC/CRT_OBJ/SCRT_OBJ/CSRC/COBJ/SSRC/SOBJ/MSRC/MOBJ where no more is needed, if only CSRC is present use OBJS directly instead of COBJ; CTOR_TARGETS are created directly in lib; remove unused/unneeded parts. Hope I haven't broken too much.	vor 19 Jahren
COPYING.LIB	751dd180c3 Update license file to Lesser GPL v2.1	vor 19 Jahren
Changelog	9acf46c0c7 Update docs for release	vor 20 Jahren
Changelog.full	9acf46c0c7 Update docs for release	vor 20 Jahren
DEDICATION.mjn3	38583d5986 Today's Toni's birthday. Seems an appropriate day to add this.	vor 21 Jahren
INSTALL	37c4e78b3f fix a few typos and clean up the spacing (no tabs)	vor 20 Jahren
MAINTAINERS	6e6fe788e8 Fix platform URLs, though I'm sure rmk has enjoyed the extra traffic..	vor 19 Jahren
Makefile	a5caac62d6 Do not recurse into ldso if HAVE_SHARED is disabled.	vor 19 Jahren
Makefile.libs	b7e0093023 Adapted generic file to work properly with linuxthreads	vor 19 Jahren
Makerules	5e48b8b628 Add the current implementation to review	vor 19 Jahren
README	ece14c1a67 Remove whitespace	vor 20 Jahren
Rules.mak	8891cd94ce Undo -combine addition, check_gcc can't cope with it	vor 19 Jahren
TODO	1fbbaa0392 note the architectures which still need to be updated	vor 19 Jahren

		
			
			
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  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, cris, e1, h8300, i386, i960,
m68k, microblaze, 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 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...

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 an unmodified
version of 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.  You should, however,
carefuly review the license and make certain you understand and
abide by it strictly.


For installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.

uClibc strives to be standards compliant, which means that most
documentation written for SuSv3, or for 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.  There is some discussion of these differences
in the "docs" directory.

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

uClibc may be freely modified and 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 compatible 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
	are especially chummy with glibc, and may need this
	behavior disabled by adding CFLAGS+=-D__FORCE_NOGLIBC

	If you want to make special exceptions in your code which are
	specifically for uClibc, you can make certain to include features.h,
	and then have your code check for uClibc as follows:

	    #ifdef __UCLIBC__
		    do_something_special();
	    #endif

And most of all, be sure to have some fun! :-)
 -Erik

			
		