On 11/04/2011 23:52, Arkadi Shishlov wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:11:04 +0300, Christopher Friedt
> <chrisfriedt@...> wrote:
>> Is anyone interested in having a look yet? I guess I could post it on
>> gitorious as a layman overlay.
> 
> What is the (long-term) technical advantage to use bionic, compared to
> glibc and uclibc?
> 

I would like to hear some answers also.  Google's top hit is:

http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-libc.html

That's some years out of date and can be summarised as: advantage is a
bsd licence versus an lgpl licence.  Also some speedup due to dropping
support for c++ exceptions.  Also in 2008 there was no TLS in uclibc
(seems quite mature at least in current uclibc git)


This does raise a good point - can "we" really work on getting uclibc
next release out and stabilised as quickly as possible?  It's a massive
improvement over prior releases and even the unreleased git should
become everyone's version of choice right now (for a certain definition
of everyone).  On x86 a very large proportion of software now compiles
without obvious problems

I'm using a trivial bump of the in tree ebuild to grab the current git
uclibc and very pleased with it


Cheers

Ed W