musl 0.9.4 released

musl 0.9.4 released

[Rich Felker]

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

Re: musl 0.9.4 released

[Gregor Richards]

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

With valediction,
  - Gregor Richards

Re: musl 0.9.4 released

[Rich Felker]

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

Re: musl 0.9.4 released

[Gregor Richards]

On 08/18/2012 03:42 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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

I've added this tidbit to the README:

Upgrading cross compilers
=========================

It is possible to upgrade the musl version in a musl-cross cross compiler
without rebuilding the entire cross compiler prefix from scratch. Simply
download and extract the new version of musl, then configure it like so:

     ./configure --prefix="<prefix>/<triple>" CC="<triple>-gcc"

Where "<prefix>" is the prefix the cross compiler root was 
installed/extracted
to, and <triple> is the GNU-style target triple (e.g. i486-linux-microcosm).


No other changes are needed, upgrading is really quite trivial.

With valediction,
  - Gregor Richards

Re: musl 0.9.4 released

[Gregor Richards]

On 08/18/2012 03:47 PM, Gregor Richards wrote:
> On 08/18/2012 03:42 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
>> 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
>
> I've added this tidbit to the README:
>
> Upgrading cross compilers
> =========================
>
> It is possible to upgrade the musl version in a musl-cross cross compiler
> without rebuilding the entire cross compiler prefix from scratch. Simply
> download and extract the new version of musl, then configure it like so:
>
>     ./configure --prefix="<prefix>/<triple>" CC="<triple>-gcc"
>
> Where "<prefix>" is the prefix the cross compiler root was 
> installed/extracted
> to, and <triple> is the GNU-style target triple (e.g. 
> i486-linux-microcosm).
>
>
> No other changes are needed, upgrading is really quite trivial.
>
> With valediction,
>  - Gregor Richards
>
>

And I wrote "microcosm" because I am an idiot. Read that as "musl". X_X

With valediction,
  - Gregor Richards