use of legacy C library functions

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> writes:

Hi,

 >> As you probably know, the new stable 0.9.31 uClibc release is
 >> out. One of the changes since earlier versions is that usleep is
 >> (correctly so) not available when UCLIBC_SUSV3_LEGACY is disabled,
 >> which it is by default.

 Rob> There's a lot of config symbols you can switch off in uClibc that
 Rob> break busybox.  Adding a new one isn't a big thing.

Yeah, but there's imho value in working out of the box, E.G. with a
default uclibc .config.

 Rob> Or just say that you need to switch the config symbol on in uClibc
 Rob> in order to build rather a lot of busybox functions, which is the
 Rob> easy way.

Next to the current uClibc issue, there's the bigger issue of following
susv3 / susv4 - Chances are that other setups will get rid of those
legacy functions some time.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard