It's more than GCC [LWN.net]

It's more than GCC

Posted Apr 7, 2008 14:55 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: It's more than GCC by coriordan
Parent article: Sun Microsystems' Next Linux Move (Seeking Alpha)

glibc is replaceable by uClibc. uClibc lacks some important things glibc 
has got (most notably the binary compatibility commitment), but is still 
perfectly *usable* (well, it supports most of POSIX by now, at least the 
parts people actually use).

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It's more than GCC

Posted Apr 7, 2008 15:39 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

That, as Mr. Clinton will agree, depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

I mean, sure, it *is* possible in a post to an LWN story.

But where're the uClibc based distros?  And I don't mean toy projects, unused experiments.

/coriordan smokes a cigar

It's more than GCC

Posted Apr 7, 2008 18:05 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, I know my systems wouldn't boot without it (it's damn useful as a 
libc in an initramfs: klibc is too small to handle a lot of stuff you 
might reasonably put in there, but uClibc happens just fine).