Building kernel using uClibc

Sajeev Kesavan sajeev.kesavan at lgsoftindia.com
Wed Aug 23 00:59:06 UTC 2006


Are we talking about the uClibc libraries with the kernel ?  or the
compiler ?

Sajeev Kesavan

-----Original Message-----
From: uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org [mailto:uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org] On
Behalf Of Rich Felker
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:30 PM
To: uclibc at uclibc.org
Subject: Re: Building kernel using uClibc

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:39:32PM +0200, Rory Vieira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the past couple of days I have been using buildroot to create my
> mini development system (with much success).
> I installed the outcome on a new machine, and it runs like a charm :)
> 
> Question:
> Is it possible to compile a kernel with this system or do I need to
> install glibc anyways?

The kernel has absolutely nothing to do with libc and therefore it
does not matter what libc you have or even whether you have a libc at
all. You can compile it on a uclibc system just fine.

Rich

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