Functions not really "compliant"

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Dec 30 10:22:02 UTC 2005


On Friday 30 December 2005 04:41, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On tor, 2005-12-29 at 20:05 +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > The attached list is what coreutils' configure detects as uncompliant
> > functions and replaces them w/ the gnu counterparts (xstr* replace str*
> > for ex.). This is not really good for embedded if anyone intends to put
> > more than busybox on the target, because each app will become bigger as
> > needed, having static versions built into them.
> > Should we try to get these tests pass on uClibc, so we don't end up w/
> > static versions compiled in?
>
> Would this increase the size of uclibc for those who don't use
> coreutils?

coreutils isnt the only package this would affect ... every package which 
utilizes "gnulib" would benefit (which is a very large number of gnu.org 
packages) ... coreutils just happens to be pretty damn common and uses a lot 
of stuff out of gnulib
-mike



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