[uClibc]Gentoo with uClibc as root libc

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue May 20, 2003 at 11:02:08PM -0400, Rob McMullen wrote:
> Here's my progress at using uClibc as the root libc in a Gentoo Linux
> install.
> 
> http://www.flipturn.org/uclibc
> 
> Lots of stuff works without any problems; more stuff would have worked
> had the Gentoo ebuild writers not assumed some stuff (like NLS
> support, PAM, NIS) without obeying the use variables.

Very very cool.  Nice work.

> It's been quite a test of uClibc so far, and I've been impressed with
> the numbers of packages that have worked without any mods.

:-)

> Something that I need to look into is ld.so seems to be ignoring extra
> directories in /etc/ld.so.conf.  With that, QT, KDE, mozilla and
> others fail because of that.  Gnome seems to be extremely dependent on
> the locale stuff, and my current trials have been without locale
> support.

uClibc's ld.so does not currently use /etc/ld.so.conf....  You
should however be able to specify an rpath at link time using the
'-rpath <dir>'.  Or you could encourage me to add support for
/etc/ld.so.conf....

As for locale support, uClibc does have locale support, though it
is currently a bit tricky to enable it.  The good news though is
that if you enable uClibc's WCHAR support, you will automagically
get fairly complete, but stubbed out, locale support.

 -Erik

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