Subversion Repositories or1k

<!--#include file="header.html" -->

<ul>

    <li> <b>13 November 2003, uClibc 0.9.23 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.23.  Of course, we are somewhat less than pleased that there

    were configuration problems in the previous release that made such it

    necessary to release .23 so quickly.  Updated uClibc development systems

    using uClibc 0.9.23 are being built and will be posted shortly.  And Erik

    has built Debian stable (woody) for x86 with uClibc and it runs great.

    <p>

    This release continues to be binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21 and

    0.9.22 -- as long as you pick compatible configuration options.  Enabling

    or disabling things like soft-float, locale, wide char support, or changing

    cpu optimizations are all good examples of binary incompatible

    configuration options.  If have changed any of those sorts of options (or

    if you are not sure!) you will need to recompile all your applications and

    libraries.

    <p>

    As usual, the

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>,

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>,

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.23.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>

    are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>8 November 2003, uClibc 0.9.22 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.22.  This release has been cooking for a couple of months now

    and is looking quite solid.  We have done quite a lot of testing with this

    release and things are looking good.  And Erik has built Debian stable

    (woody) for x86 with uClibc and it runs great.  Expect that to be released

    in the next few days.

    <p>

    This release is binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21 -- as long as you pick

    compatible configuration options.  Enabling or disabling things like

    soft-float, locale, wide char support, or changing cpu optimizations are

    all good examples of binary incompatible configuration options.  If have

    changed any of those sorts of options (or if you are not sure!) you will

    need to recompile all your applications and libraries.

    <p>

    Updated uClibc development systems using uClibc 0.9.22 will be made

    available within a few days.  Meanwhile, we invite you to try out uClibc

    with the latest <a href="http://ltp.sourceforge.net/">Linux Test Project

    test suite</a> (you will need to apply a small <a

    href="http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/sources/ltp-testsuite.patch?rev=1.3">patch</a>.

    And also give the latest Perl and Python test suites a try as well.

    If you find any bugs in uClibc, PLEASE let us know!

    <p>

    As usual, the

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>,

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>,

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.22.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>

    are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>30 September 2003, dev systems updated to uClibc 0.9.21+</b>

    <br>

    The uClibc development systems for

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,

    have been updated to uClibc 0.9.21 (plus all the CVS updates up to

    today).  Several problems have been fixed up,

    gcc has been updated to version 3.3.1, binutils was updated to 2.14.90.0.6, and

    <em>tada</em> everything finally works for cross compiling.  These were

    all cross compiled (which really makes things faster since the older

    mipsel releases used to take 2 days to build!)

    <p>

    These are ~100 MB ext2 filesystems that run natively on the specified

    architecture.  They contains all the development software you need to build

    your own uClibc applications, including bash, coreutils, findutils,

    diffutils, patch, sed, ed, flex, bison, file, gawk, tar, grep gdb, strace,

    make, gcc, g++,  autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh perl,

    and more.   And of course, everything is dynamically linked against uClibc.

    By using a uClibc only system, you can avoid all the painful

    cross-configuration problems that have made using uClibc somewhat painful

    in the past.  If you want to quickly get started with testing or using

    uClibc you should give these images a try.  You can loop mount and them

    you can chroot into them, you can boot into with using user-mode Linux,

    and you can even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to make

    them fill the drive.  Whatever works for you.

    <p> If you would like to build your own custom uClibc system, you can

        use <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a>, which is

        how these uClibc development systems were created.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>9 September 2003, uClibc 0.9.21 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.21.  This release has been brewing for several months now, and

    provides quite a lot of additional functionality and quite a few bug fixes

    as well.  Many people will be pleased that this release fixes the

    "dlopen()'ing libraries that depend on libraries" problem.

    <p>

    The biggest thing in this release (and I do mean that literally) is that

    uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support.  Well, except for

    wcsftime() and collating items in regex, which are not done yet.   Adding

    support for the default set of locales (169 UTF-8 locales and 144 locales

    using other codesets) will enlarge uClibc by around 300k.  Still, if you

    need locale support, that is still much better than the roughly 30MB the

    comparable set of locale date occupies with glibc.  And you can of course

    reduce the 300k by reducing the number of supported locales.

    <p>

    As usual, this release has many improvements, both large and small.  At

    this point, most applications that compile and work with glibc will also

    compile and run with uClibc.  Both Perl and Python pass all the tests in

    their test suites (both with and without locale support enabled).  We

    invite you to grab a copy of the latest <a

    href="http://ltp.sourceforge.net/"> Linux Test Project test suite</a> and

    give uClibc some abuse.  We are not yet perfect, but we are getting pretty

    darn close.

    <p>

    This release is not binary compatible with earlier releases.  Depending on

    your configuration, you may actually still be binary compatible, but it

    would be a good idea to recompile your applications when moving to the

    uClibc 0.9.21 release.  We are sorry about that, but we have never promised

    to provide binary compatibility until we hit version 1.0.  And even then,

    if you change your uClibc configuration, you still still generally need to

    recompile...

    <p>

    As usual, the

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>,

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>,

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.21.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>

    are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    Updated uClibc development systems using uClibc 0.9.21 will be made

    available within a few days.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>30 June 2003, uClibc 0.9.20 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.20.  This is primarily a bug-fix release.  This release remains

    binary compatible with 0.9.18 and 0.9.19 (as long as you leave the

    new UCLIBC_HAS_TM_EXTENSIONS option disabled), so you don't have to recompile

    everything if you don't really feel like it.

    <p>

    This release has many small improvements.  At this point, most applications

    that compile and work with glibc will also compile and run with uClibc.

    Perl and Python even pass all the tests in their test suites.

    <p>

    There is currently one notable exception.  Applications that use dlopen()

    to load libraries that themselves depend on other libraries, may have weak

    symbols within those depended-upon libraries resolved incorrectly.  This

    problem is currently being worked on.  Other than that, everything seems

    to now be working as expected....

    <p>

    As usual, the

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>,

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>,

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.20.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>

    are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>30 June 2003, dev systems updated to uClibc 0.9.20</b>

    <br>

    The uClibc development systems for

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,

    have been updated to uClibc 0.9.20.  Several problems have been fixed up,

    gcc has been updated to version 3.3, and Perl 5.8.0 is now included.

    <p>

    This is a 150 MB ext2 filesystem that runs natively on the specified

    architecture.  It contains all the development software you need to build

    your own uClibc applications, including bash, coreutils, findutils,

    diffutils, patch, sed, ed, flex, bison, file, gawk, tar, grep gdb, strace,

    make, gcc, g++,  autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh perl,

    and more.   And of course, everything is dynamically linked against uClibc.  By

    using a uClibc only system, you can avoid all the painful

    cross-configuration problems that have made using uClibc somewhat painful

    in the past.  If you want to quickly get started with testing or using

    uClibc you should give these images a try.  You can loop mount and then

    chroot into them, you can boot into them using user-mode Linux, and you can

    even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to make them fill the

    drive.  Whatever works for you.

    <p> If you would like to build your own custom uClibc system, you can

        use <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a>, which is

        how the uClibc development systems were created.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>6 March 2003, development system updates</b>

    <br>

    The uClibc development systems for

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,

    and now for the first time

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,

    have been updated to uClibc 0.9.19.  Several smaller problems

    have also been fixed up.

    <p>

    This is an ext2 filesystem that runs natively on the specified

    architecture.  It contains all the development software you need to build

    your own uClibc applications, including bash, coreutils, findutils,

    diffutils, patch, sed, ed, flex, bison, file, gawk, tar, grep gdb, strace,

    make, gcc, g++,  autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh and

    more.   And of course, everything is dynamically linked against uClibc.  By

    using a uClibc only system, you can avoid all the painful

    cross-configuration problems that have made using uClibc somewhat painful

    in the past.  If you want to quickly get started with testing or using

    uClibc you should give these images a try.  You can loop mount and

    then chroot into them, you can boot into them using user-mode Linux,

    you can even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to

    make them fill the drive.  Whatever works best for you.

    <p>

    Have Fun.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>3 March 2003, uClibc 0.9.19 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.19.  This is once again primarily a bug-fix release.  Several

    critical problems with system calls were fixed, the pthreads library was

    improved, debugging of applications using uClibc's pthreads library is

    now possible (requires gdb 5.3 or newer that is compiled using uClibc),

    and a number of other random fixes are included.  This release retains

    binary compatibility with uClibc 0.9.18 (except for mips, which didn't

    work properly with uClibc 0.9.18 anyways).  Updated development system

    images compiled with uClibc 0.9.19 will be released shortly.

    <p>

    As usual, the

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a> and <a

    href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.19.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>

    are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>17 February 2003, development system updates</b>

    <br>

    The uClibc development systems for

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>

    and

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,

    and

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>

    have been again updated.  This time around a few broken symlinks

    (one preventing C++ code from compiling) have been fixed, several

    system calls related to uids and gid have been fixed, the powerpc

    system call mechanism has been updated, and GNU tar and GNU grep

    have been added.  gcc, gcc+, ssh, etc are all still included and

    things remain binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.18.

    Have Fun.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>12 February 2003, development system updates</b>

    <br>

    The uClibc development system has had a number of problems

    fixed, and has been updated for uClibc 0.9.18.  The

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>

    and

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,

    and

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>

    devel systems are updated and ready to download and use.

    Have Fun.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>12 February 2003, uClibc 0.9.18 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.18.  This is primarily a bug-fix release, as there were a few

    directory handling problem that could cause application using uClibc 0.9.17

    to either segfault or lose the first character when reading directry names.

    Unfortunately, once again, this release is _NOT_ binary compatible with

    earlier uClibc releases.  I _think this will be the last time (with the

    possible exception of some future changes to our locale support...)

    <p>

    As usual, the

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.18.tar.bz2">source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    You might want to download uClibc from the closest

    <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.

    Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">

    http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>

    to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.

    <p>

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>25 January 2003, uClibc 0.9.17 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.17.  The biggest piece of news with this release, thanks to

    Manuel Novoa's continuing hard work, is that we now have fully standards

    compliant locale support (optional of course).  The support works nicely,

    (though configuring the locales you wish to support is still manual -- a

    task for the next release).  Full locale data for over 300 locales adds

    approximately 250k.  The collation data for all supported locales is

    roughly 180k.  This may seem rather large to some -- but it is much smaller

    than the approximately 40 MB needed by Glibc to provide the same data.  And

    if you don't need it, you can either disable locale support entirely, or

    enable a smaller set of locales.

    <p>

    This release also fixes <em>lots and lots</em> of bugs.  The arm

    architecture support (I am embarrassed to note) was totally broken in the

    last release, but is now working as expected.   A security problem (a

    buffer overflow in getlogin_r) was fixed.  And there were architecture

    updates across the board (x86, arm, powerpc, cris, h8300, sparc, and mips).

    And of course, this release includes the usual pile of bug fixes.  Many

    thanks for the large number of patches and fixes that were contributed!

    <p>

    Unfortunately, this release is not binary compatible with earlier uClibc

    releases.  As noted as item 3 <a href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">here</a>,

    uClibc does not (yet) attempt to

    ensure binary compatibility across releases.  We will eventually do that

    (once we reach the "1.0" release) but not yet.  A few bugs turned up that

    needed to be fixed, and the only good way to fix them was to change some

    fundamental data structure sizes.  As a result, this release is _NOT_

    binary compatible with earlier releases -- you will need to recompile your

    applications.  The x86, arm, powerpc, and mips architectures (i.e. the

    systems Erik has available in his office for testing) have been tested and

    are known to work following this change.  Other architectures <em>may</em>

    need additional updates.  Sorry about that, but it had to be done.

    <p>

    As usual, the

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2">source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    You might want to download uClibc from the closest

    <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.

    Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">

    http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>

    to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>25 January 2003, dev system updates, arm image released</b>

    <br>

    A number of additional problems have been fixed and the arm build

    is now, finally, compiling and working as expected.  As such,

    I have updated the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">

    i386 development system image</a>, the

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">

    powerpc development system image</a>, and I am also releasing

    upon an unsuspecting world the brand new

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">

    arm development system image</a>!

    Have fun!

    <p>

    All three development system images were compiled and built using the stock

    <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> system.  These were also

    built using the (about to be announced in a couple on minutes) uClibc

    0.9.17 release, so if you want to begin compiling and testing stuff with

    uClibc, but you don't feel like spending the _hours_ it takes to download,

    configure, and build your own uClibc based development system -- then you

    may want to download these and give them a try.  They each contain a 100 MB

    ext2 filesystem with everything you need to begin compiling your own

    applications.  I have (at least minimally) tested each of them and verified

    that the included gcc and g++ compilers produce working uClibc linked

    executables.

    <p>

    Oh, and I have also have updated the uClibc/gcc toolchain builders, so

    if you just want a simple uClibc/gcc toolchain,

    <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">one of these should work for you.</a>

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>10 January 2003, dev system updates, powerpc image released</b>

    <br>

    A few problems showed up in yesterday's development system release

    (adduser was broken, gdb didn't work, libstdc++ shared libs were missing,

    etc).  So I've updated the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">

    i386 development system image</a> to fix these problems.

    Also, the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">

    powerpc development system image</a> has finally finished compiling

    and is now released upon an unsuspecting world.  Have fun!

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>9 January 2003, uClibc development system released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has been working hard on <a

    href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> recently, and is pleased to

    offer a full stand-alone uClibc-only development system.  This is an ext2

    filesystem for i386 containing all the development software you need to

    build your own uClibc applications.  With bash, awk, make, gcc, g++,

    autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh, gdb, strace, valgrind,

    busybox, GNU coreutils, and more, this should have pretty much everything

    you need to get started building your own applications linked against

    uClibc.  By using a uClibc only system, you can avoid all the painful

    cross-configuration problems that have made using uClibc somewhat painful

    in the past.  A powerpc and an arm version are in progress.  Expect them

    to be released shortly....

    <p>

    The <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">

    uClibc development system is an 18MB bzip2 compressed ext2 filesystem</a>,

    so be prepared to wait if you are on a slow link.  If you wish to have more

    space, you can loop mount it and 'cp -a' the contents to their own

    partition, or do what I did... <EM>WARNING, the following can be very

    dangerous.  Please be sure you know what you are doing before trying this.

    I am not responsible if you lose all your important data.</EM>I had a spare

    hard drive (in my case /dev/hdg but you'll want to adapt this to your own

    needs), so I partitioned it with a single ext2 partition filling the drive

    (in my case /dev/hdg1).  Then I ran:<PRE>

    bzcat root_fs_i386.bz2 | dd of=/dev/hdg1

    e2fsck -f /dev/hdg1

    resize2fs -p /dev/hdg1</PRE>

    which overwrote everything on /dev/hdg with the new uClibc devel system,

    and then expanded the filesystem with the uClibc devel system till it

    filled the whole drive.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>8 November 2002, uClibc 0.9.16 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.16.  This release adds full support (including a native shared

    library loader) for the CRIS architecture, contributed by Tobias Anderberg.

    Stefan Allius contributed a number of patches to fix the initialization

    order for shared library global constructors and destructors as well as a

    large number of SuperH fixes and cleanups.  uClibc now compiles with

    newer versions of gcc (i.e. RedHat 8.0).  Thanks to Christian Michon,

    uClibc no longer requires perl to compile.  Steven J. Hill fixed dlopen for

    mips.  Several problems with pty and tty handling were fixed.  Manuel Novoa

    added new support for an /etc/TZ file to globally set the system timezone,

    and fixed up a number of remaining wide char issues.  Manuel is still hard

    at work on bringing full locale support (optional of course) to uClibc.

    And of course, this release includes the usual pile of bug fixes.  Many thanks

    for the large number of patches and fixes that were contributed!

    <p>

    Erik and Manuel have been working on a

    <a href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">

    document describing some of the differences between uClibc and glibc.</a>

    It's not yet 100% complete, and it hasn't been nicely formatted yet.  But

    it contains a lot of helpful information and is worth a look.

    <p>

    And finally, the the old uClibc configuration system has been completely

    removed (and there was much rejoicing).  It was replaced with an entirely

    new system based on <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/">LinuxKernelConf</a>,

    which has since been included into Linux 2.5.45, so it looks like Erik made

    the right choice.  Of course, those who have existing build systems using uClibc

    will need to make a few changes...  We think the change is worth it.

    <p>

    As usual, the

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.16.tar.bz2">source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    You might want to download uClibc from the closest

    <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.

    Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">

    http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>

    to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.

    <p>

    Updated gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95 toolchains will be released shortly.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>16 September 2002, gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95 toolchains released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released updated gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95

    uClibc toolchains.  These toolchains build real gcc cross compilers (i.e.

    not just a wrapper) and create executables linked vs uClibc.   The new

    gcc-3.2 provides uClibc support with the latest and greatest compiler

    available from the gcc team.  The gcc-2.95 toolchain has been updated to

    the latest version of uClibc and now provides full C++ support, using the

    <a href="http://www.stlport.org/">STLport</a> standard C++ library.

    <p>

    This toolchain should make it easy for anyone to build uClibc based

    applications.

    <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/"> Source code can be downloaded here</a>.

    Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on

    when you compile the toolchains.  To build a toolchain, simply

    grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like

    the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat

    dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles.  It takes

    about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.2 toolchain (w/C++ support)

    on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download

    source code).

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>27 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.15 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability

    of uClibc 0.9.15.  This release fixes a number of problems that turned

    up since the last release.   The good news is that uClibc now

    passes all tests in the perl 5.8 and Python 2.2.1 test suites, both with

    and without pthreads.  So without any further ado....

    <p>

    The

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.15.tar.bz2">source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    Have fun!

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>12 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.14 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is slightly less pleased then usual to announce the

    immediate availability of uClibc 0.9.14.  This is, unfortunately, a bugfix

    release intended to fix the couple of dumb things that slipped into the

    previous release.  Version 0.9.13 of uClibc would fail to compile when

    enabling both RPC and Pthreads.  There was also a problem with RPC thread

    local storage (but noone noticed since it didn't compile ;-).  Also, the

    thread locking in exit(), onexit() and atexit() was broken, and wasn't

    actually locking anything.   This release also fixes uClibc's gcc wrapper

    to use crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o when compiling PIC code, fixing a subtle

    bug (that was much less subtle on powerpc).  Finally, this release includes a

    few minor compile warning cleanups.

    <p>

    The

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.14.tar.bz2">source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    Have fun!

    <p>

    <li> <b>12 August 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.1.1 toolchain released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released an updated native

    uClibc/gcc-3.1.1 toolchain.   This toolchain builds a real gcc cross

    compiler (i.e. not just a wrapper) and creates executables linked vs

    uClibc.  This toolchain has been (briefly) tested as working on x86, arm,

    mips, and arm7tdmi (uClinux).  This toolchain provides a number of

    improvements over previous releases.   In particular, Steven J. Hill found

    and fixes a number of "glibc-isms" in the libstdc++ math support which

    caused a number of math functions to be mapped to the non-standard named

    under GNU libc.   This release also includes greatly improved uClinux

    "elf2flt" support, and it now produces working flat binaries for my

    uClinux/arm7tdmi system.  The native uClibc/gcc-2.95 toolchain will be

    updated in a few days, and will include STLport which will allow that

    toolchain to also provide full C++ support.

    <p>

    This toolchain should make it easy for anyone to build uClibc based

    applications.

    <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.

    Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on

    demand when you compile things.  To build the toolchain, simply

    grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like

    the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat

    dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles.  It takes

    about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.1.1 toolchain (w/C++ support)

    on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download

    source code).  Your results may vary...

    <p>

    <li> <b>9 August 2002, uClibc now mirrored on kernel.org!</b>

    <br>

    uClibc is now available from the kernel.org mirrors!  This should make

    uClibc downloads much faster.  The kernel.org mirrors will have all

    uClibc release versions (everything but the daily snapshots).

    Here is a list of all the <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror sites</a>.

    Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to "/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/"

    to download uClibc.

    Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to

    <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">

    http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a> to download the latest

    uClibc release from a nice fast system.

    <p>

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>9 August 2002, uClibc 0.9.13 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.13.  After several days of testing, this release is looking very

    solid.   This release fixes three security vulnerabilites in previous

    releases.  There was an off-by-one buffer overflow in the group handling

    code, and integer overflows in calloc() and xdr_array().

    <p>

    This release adds native shared library support for the Hitachi

    SuperH architecture, thanks to Stefan Allius and Edie C. Dost.  A

    new mmap based malloc was implemented by Miles Bader.  This is much

    smarter than the old "malloc-simple" and is now the default for

    mmu-less systems, where it should greatly help reduce memory

    fragmentation and wastage.  In addition to these larger items, there

    has been a <em>lot</em> of work done to make uClibc a cleaner, more

    capable, library.  Most applications now compile and run without

    any trouble.

    <p>

    The

    <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.13.tar.bz2">source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    Have fun!

    <p>

    <li> <b>11 July 2002, Native uClibc toolchains updated</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting (i.e. Erik) has released updated native

    uClibc/gcc-3.1 and uClibc/gcc-2.95 toolchains.  These toolchains

    build real gcc cross compilers (i.e. not just a wrapper) and create

    executables linked vs uClibc.  These toolchains have been tested

    and found working on x86, arm, and mmu-less arm.  They should work

    (at least in theory!) for all architectures supported by uClibc.

    <p>

    These toolchains should make it easy to anyone to build uClibc based

    applications.

    <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.

    Be aware that much of the needed source code will actually be downloaded on

    demand when you compile things.  To build the toolchain, simply

    grab the source, edit the Makefile to select where you would like

    the toolchain installed, run 'make', and then go watch TV, eat

    dinner, or visit with your friends while it compiles.  It takes

    about 15 minutes for Erik to compile the gcc-3.1 toolchain (w/C++ support)

    on his Athlon XP 1600 (not counting the time it takes to download

    source code).  Your results may vary...

    <p>

    <P>

    <li> <b>20 June 2002, uClibc 0.9.12 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.12. This release adds an i960 port, an initial alpha port,

    fully working mips shared library support, shared library support fixes

    for on powerpc, and many other improvements.  One very exciting new feature

    is nearly complete locale support, thanks to a lot of hard work by Manuel

    Novoa III.  uClibc's locale support is <em>much</em> smaller than glibc's,

    though it is also slightly less flexible.  This release was delayed by a

    month due to the arrival of a new baby at Erik's house.  For those that

    have been anxiously waiting, this release should certainly be worth the

    wait.  Have fun!

    <p>

    The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.12.tar.bz2">source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.

    <li> <b>28 May 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.1 toolchain</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting has released source code and a Makefile to build a

    gcc-3.1 toolchain that natively targets uClibc.  Additionally, the

    gcc-3.0.4 and gcc-2.95 toolchains have also been updated.  These toolchains

    make it easy to build uClibc based applications.

    <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.

    and is now much smaller,

    since much of the needed binutils and gcc source code is now downloaded on

    demand.  To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile

    to select where you would like the toolchain installed, and then run 'make'

    and wait for it to compile.

    <p>

    <p><li> <b>10 April 2002, uClibc 0.9.11 Released</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of

    uClibc 0.9.11. This release is primarily focused on fixing the issues that

    have turned up since the last release.  Several bugs in the gcc wrapper

    have been fixed, allowing applications such as iproute2 and XFree86 to link properly.

    Large file support has been improved, and a thread locking bug was

    fixed that could cause s*printf calls to deadlock when threading was

    enabled.  Several bugs were also fixed with the powerpc, h8300, m68k,

    sparc, and mips architecture support.  Many additional applications now

    compile and run perfectly and have been added to the <a

    href="uClibc-apps.html">working applications list</a> .

    <p>

    The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.11.tar.bz2">source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    <li> <b>10 April 2002, Native uClibc/gcc-3.0.4 toolchain</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting has released source code and a Makefile

    to build a gcc-3.0.4 toolchain that natively targets uClibc.

    This brings with it full C++ support for uClibc, including the

    libstdc++ library.  A gcc-2.95.x toolchain will also be released

    shortly, but is not yet ready.  At this time, only source code and

    a Makefile for the native uClibc toolchain is being released (i.e.

    no binaries, sorry).

    <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">Source code can be downloaded here</a>.

    <p>

    To build the toolchain, simply grab the source, edit the Makefile

    to select where you would like the toolchain installed.  Then

    run 'make' and wait for it to compile.  If you do not have a copy

    of uClibc already, it will download the latest daily snapshot.

    <p>

    <li> <b>21 March 2002, uClibc 0.9.10 Released!</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate

    availability of uClibc 0.9.10. This release adds pthreads support

    (including pthreads support for mmu-less systems!).  Additionally,

    thanks to Manuel Novoa III, we now have a completely new stdio

    library, which is small, standards compliant, supports pthreads,

    wide/narrow streams, large files, and can even operate in a

    low-memory unbuffered mode.  Many, many bugs have been fixed and a

    number of additional applications now compile and run perfectly.

    Even with all these changes, uClibc continues to be very small.

    On x86, a default build of the uClibc C library is still just 168k.

    <p>

    To make things more interesting, the release also adds support for

    C++ constructors and destructors.  To make it easy to use uClibc

    when developing C++ applications, this release also provides a

    wrapper for the GNU C++ compiler.  Of course, for more complex C++

    applications, such as those using iostreams, a standard C++ library

    (libstdc++) is required.  A native GNU toolchain (binutils/gcc) that

    provides libstdc++ linked with uClibc 0.9.10 will be released in the

    next couple of days, so stay tuned.

    <p>

    The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.10.tar.bz2">Source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    <p>

    <li> <b>4 February 2002, uClibc 0.9.9 Released!</b>

    <br>

    CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate

    availability of uClibc 0.9.9.  With this release,

    <a href="uClibc-apps.html">just about

    everything we have tested now compiles and runs</a>.  In fact,

    there are now so many programs on the working application list that

    rather than continue to add to this list, from now on we

    will only be adding applications to the <em>not working list</em>.  Most applications

    on the <em>not working list</em> either require pthreads, or require

    wide-character support.  Work on wide-character support is

    well underway, and will hopefully be moving into CVS in the next week or

    two.  Full pthreads support and rentrancy are on the TODO list

    and are expected to be complete in the next couple of months.

    <p>

    The <a href="downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>

    and <a

    href="downloads/uClibc-0.9.9.tar.bz2">Source code</a>

    for this release are available <a href="downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    One final bit on news -- as some of you may have noticed, uclibc.org

    has been a bit overloaded and somewhat slow recently.  The server should

    be getting colocated tomorrow, which will eliminate the speed problem.

    During the move, there may be some temporary disruption of service...

    <p>

    Have Fun!

    <p>

    <li> <b>22 December 2001, uClibc 0.9.8 Released!</b>

    <br>

    After many months of initial development, we are pleased to announce the

    release of uClibc 0.9.8.  This release should be quite solid, and is very

    usable.  This also, hopefully, marks a transition from a slow incubation

    phase to a more methodical release cycle.  From now one, there should be

    approximately one release per month.

    <p>

    The source code for this release is available

        <a href="downloads/">here</a>.

    <p>

    <li> <b>26 November 2001, powerpc shared libraries fully working</b>

    <br>

    Dave Schleef finished off the the work needed for shared library support on

    powerpc.  There had been a few problems remaining, and those are now squashed.

    So shared libs on powerpc should be working fully now.

    <p>

    <li> <b>14 November 2001, m68 compiles again, Large file support working</b>

    <br>

        About a month ago I synced the header files with glibc 2.2.4 for better

        C++ support and better standards compliance.  I forgot to sync up m68k,

        sparc, powerpc, and mipsel.  Dave Schleef fixed powerpc while he was fixing

        up the shared lib loader.  I just fixed up m68k, sparc, and mipsel so they

        should all compile again.

        <p>

        I also finished up fixing large file support (just enable DOLFS in your

        Config file to enable it) and it is working just great, and greatly increases

        the number of glibc applications that will work "out-of-the-tarball" without

        needing any changes.

    <li> <b>12 November 2001, powerpc shared lib support</b>

    <br>

        Thanks to David Schleef, uClibc now has full shared library support

        on powerpc.  This brings full shared library support to x86, ARM, and

        now powerpc.  Thanks Dave!

    <p>

    <li> <b>7 November 2001, uClibc application list</b>

    <br>

        uClibc now has a <a href="uClibc-apps.html">list of applications</a>

        that are known to work.  If you have any applications to add to the

        list, submissions are welcome!

    <p>

    <li> <b>18 October 2001, buildroot uClibc example system</b>

    <br>

        Those wanting an easy way to test out uClibc and give it

        a test drive can download and compile

        <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a>.

        This is a nifty buildsystem that will automagically download and build

        a <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>

        kernel, and will then download source for and compile up a fully

        working uClibc based root filesystem.  This should make it easy for

        people to create their own projects.  I hope that this build system

        will allow people to more easily use and build uClibc based systems.

        As an example of how nicely this works, the

        <a href="http://tuxscreen.net/">Tuxscreen Project</a> is using a

        <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxscreen/buildroot-tux/">slightly adjusted variant of the buildroot system</a> to cross

        compile the blob bootloader, linux kernel, and a uClibc based jffs2

        root filesystem (busybox, tinylogin, udhcp, lrzsz, pcmcia-cs and

        microwindows) for ARM.  Pretty cool.

    <p>

    <li> <b>11 October 2001, v850 architecture support</b>

    <br>

        Miles Bader has contributed support for the v850 architecture.

    <p>

    <li> <b>25 Spetember 2001, header files updated</b>

    <br>

        uClibc's header files are now in sync with glibc 2.2.4,

    allowing better standards compliance, better portibility, and

    better C++ support.

    <p>

    <li> <b>4 July 2001, ARM shared library support</b>

    <br>