[uClibc]building Debian base against uClibc

[Jon Nelson]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:14:49 -0700
"David Schleef" <ds at schleef.org> wrote:

> Lately, I've been working on getting Debian packages to compile
> against uClibc.  I'm running into a time crunch right now (new
> job), so I decided to post some preliminary results and other
> interesting details.
..
> I had to repackage gettext so that it would build a libintl
> package, since many packages depend on libintl existing in
> glibc.  I also had to fix the Debian packaging of uClibc to
> include support for large files.

That's good to know!

..
> By far, the next significant obstacle is ncurses, followed by db2
> and slang.  Once perl compiles, it is reasonable that one can
> consider building a base system and installing.

Funny you should mention that. A few days ago I got ncurses (5.2)
compiling just fine under the uClibc buildroot project.  Contact
me for details!

-- 
Jon Nelson
C and Python Programmer, Code Gardener
Just because it's not broken doesn't mean we can't take it apart.