Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is X86 uclibc environment supported?
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 15:50:50
Message-Id: CADopNUd=+PLHGvCQTpOUcR3gc6kX_J70KbB=NJXD5ocXZXYiFw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is X86 uclibc environment supported? by Ian Stakenvicius
1 I think the deal breaker for some people using uclibc over musl is being
2 able to choose to include individual components to make it even smaller.
3 Another possibility why is musl doesn't straight drop in replace all of
4 glibc's non posix quirks that legacy software depends on could make for
5 some trouble.
6
7 On Tue, May 3, 2016, 10:25 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
8
9 > On 02/05/16 05:27 PM, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
10 > > Let me know offline if/when you need a beta tester. I have QEMU and
11 > > an ancient 32-bit-only Atom netbook that could really use a smaller
12 > > libc.
13 > >
14 >
15 > Is musl a good choice perhaps? iirc it's support right now is better
16 > than uclibc...
17 >
18 >