From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1634 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 0.9.4 released Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:42:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20120818194233.GZ27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20120818041254.GW27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <502FC576.1030408@purdue.edu> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345318880 3270 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2012 19:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:41:20 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1635-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Aug 18 21:41:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T2otb-0001RA-De for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:41:19 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3257 invoked by uid 550); 18 Aug 2012 19:41:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 3243 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2012 19:41:17 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <502FC576.1030408@purdue.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1634 Archived-At: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:40:22PM -0400, Gregor Richards wrote: > On 08/18/2012 12:12 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >Here's the release. > > > > Major improvements to MIPS port, including support for dynamic > > linking. Password hashing (crypt) now supports blowfish hash > > algorithm. Further application compatibility improvements > > especially for BSD and SUSv3-targeted software. Performance > > improvements in printf and memcpy. Various bugfixes: strtod > > family, wcsstr, err.h functions, and many MIPS-specific bugs. > > > > http://www.etalabs.net/musl/releases/musl-0.9.4.tar.gz > > > >Post-release priorities will be the gnuhash/dladdr patch, md5/sha > >crypt, and perhaps integrating further ports (ppc and mips64 taking > >priority). I know there are also various smaller pending patches > >(vm86, etc.) that should get some attention too. > > > >Rich > > New musl cross compilers for all supported platforms finished: > https://bitbucket.org/GregorR/musl-cross/downloads Random question, but related: could you provide directions for upgrading musl on your cross compilers? For example, what prefix relative to the cross compiler root should be passed to musl's configure, and are there any other files that need changing in the cross tree when upgrading? Rich