From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, busybox <busybox@busybox.net>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>, musl <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: bbox: musl versus uclibc
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:43:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK1hOcOiWhBQYrH1VRs6coeQ+9aKtTnbwme9wiNkMboRv6dEgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
As uclibc is increasingly aging, I am finally forced
to switch to musl: I'm bitten by a nasty bug in
getopt() - hush is using it in a slightly unusual way,
which uclibc does not expect.
I built a toolchain using
https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make
(Rich, is this the thing I should be using?)
and it worked with no issues at all.
(I can probably only wish for the README
to also mention how to make this a _static_
toolchain... I have a box with 32-bit userspace,
would be awesome to be able to copy this fresh
64-bit toolchain to it and have it working).
Then I built busybox. Impressions:
Only a few options did not build:
EXTRA_COMPAT and FEATURE_VI_REGEX_SEARCH
failed because they need GNU regexp extensions.
FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS and FEATURE_INETD_RPC do not build
because they need rpc/rpc.h.
Not complaining, since them being in libc was a mistake
in the first place.
Now, the good news - musl has smaller data!
6695 bytes versus 7129 bytes for uclibc:
text data bss dec hex filename
894902 465 6664 902031 dc38f busybox.uclibc
912538 563 6132 919233 e06c1 busybox.musl
Whee!
next reply other threads:[~2017-08-14 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-14 17:43 Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2017-08-14 17:59 ` wdlkmpx
2017-08-16 12:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-08-16 12:57 ` Jorge Almeida
2017-08-17 4:29 ` Waldemar Brodkorb
2017-08-16 13:25 ` Denys Vlasenko
2017-08-16 13:36 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-08-17 4:35 ` [musl] " Waldemar Brodkorb
2017-08-14 18:18 ` Emmanuel Deloget
2017-08-14 18:48 ` Rich Felker
2017-08-14 22:13 ` Denys Vlasenko
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