From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4123 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: CLFS embedded book switches to musl-libc Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:38:20 +0200 Message-ID: <525EF93C.10908@barfooze.de> References: <525EF012.1050606@bradfordembedded.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381956133 3361 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2013 20:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:42:13 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4127-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Oct 16 22:42:18 2013 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 1VWXv7-0005uv-US for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:42:18 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7295 invoked by uid 550); 16 Oct 2013 20:42:16 -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 7287 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2013 20:42:16 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Mail/1.0 In-Reply-To: <525EF012.1050606@bradfordembedded.com> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4123 Archived-At: On 10/16/2013 09:59 PM, Andrew Bradford wrote: > As an FYI: the Cross Linux From Scratch embedded book has switched from > uClibc to musl as of today. > > http://cross-lfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/ nice work! while looking around i noticed that http://cross-lfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/x86/final-system/pkgmgt.html gives some advice regarding GLIBC, which does not hold for musl. with musl, it's perfectly safe to just drop in a new libc.so. > > I've done some build testing for arm but welcome more people who are > interested in testing or submitting patches to fix errors. It's still > early-days for musl in CLFS so there's bound to be plenty of issues to fix. > > Many thanks to all of the musl developers! > > I also found patches from Gregor Richards's musl-cross and Thomas > Petazzoni's buildroot work very helpful. > > Thanks! > Andrew >