Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix with libc

[Dennis Lan (dlan)]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:19 PM, heroxbd <heroxbd@×××××.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'd like to invite you to test out Prefix with libc (Prefix/libc as
> GNU/Linux) on *Linux* boxes. A guide can be found at
>
>     http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc
>
> It will not be the best solution to have Prefix with libc, we are
> working on a better alternative based on gcc specs hack. Considering the
> present solution just works out of box and it is trivial to migrate, I
> hereby announce this project to the Prefix community to look for
> interested testers and developers.
>
> The intermediate benefit of Prefix with libc is to get rid of problems
> caused by old glibc of the host[1,2,3], and load run time library that
> are not in EPREFIX{/usr,}/lib by using a dynamic linker of Prefix
> itself[4].
>
> Right now, only glibc on Linux is supported, while glibc on Hurd, uclibc
> on Linux, Prefix/FreeBSD-libc, Prefix/Solaris-libc, ... are all waiting
> to be exploited.
>
> My special appreciation goes to Ruus (redlizard) Koolen, who made the
> original implementation[5,6] and has been always giving cool ideas and
> codes in fruitful discussions. This is also part of my Google Summer of
> Code project[7], which aims to use Prefix/libc on armhf Android mobile
> devices for a complete GNU, mentored by Luca (lu_zero) Barbato in the Cc
> field.
>
> Enjoy the new magic of Prefix!
> Benda
>
> 1. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/6459
> 2. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/6110
> 3. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289757
> 4. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351910
> 5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/6543
> 6. https://github.com/redlizard/gentoo-prefix-libc
> 7. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda/projects/android.html
>

HI Benda:
  Cool!
  I'd like to give it a try when I have time.
  Thanks

Dennis Lan