[uClibc] newbie questions

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Tue May 3 13:50:40 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:34:06AM +0200, Gilles Erwan wrote:
> -Do the uclibc librairies have the same names as the glibc 's ones? If yes, I
> don't understand why a program compiled with glibc should be recompiled to run
> with uclibc. (I understand it only if the librairies are non shared).

The library names are the same because the names are standardized.
However, the internal implementation and various structures (like FILE)
are different.  They are not binary compatible with glibc.

> -As anyone tried to run a JVM on a system with uclibc?

I know people are doing it.  Never tried it myself.

Manuel



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