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uClibc: A C library for developing embedded Linux systems

uClibc (aka µClibc/pronounced yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for developing embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller than the GNU C Library, but nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc. Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just recompiling the source code. uClibc even supports shared libraries and threading. It currently runs on standard Linux and MMU-less (also known as µClinux) systems with support for alpha, amd64, ARM, Blackfin, cris, h8300, hppa, i386, i960, ia64, m68k, mips/mipsel, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
If you are building an embedded Linux system and you find that glibc is eating up too much space, you may want to consider using uClibc. If you are building a huge fileserver with 12 Terabytes of storage, then using glibc may make more sense. Unless, for example, that 12 Terabytes will be Network Attached Storage and you plan to burn Linux into the system's firmware...
Name:uClibc
Release: 0.9.31-1mamba
Group:System/Libraries
Maintainer:silvan
License:LGPL
Size:2.19 MB
Upstream URL:http://www.uclibc.org
Build time:2010-04-21 01:53:55
Source files
uClibc-0.9.31-arm-config
uClibc-0.9.31-i386-config
uClibc-0.9.31.tar.bz2
uClibc.spec
Binary packages and requirements
i586
Built RPMSuClibc
uClibc-devel
Build requirements
History of changes
DatePackagerReleaseDescription
2010-04-20silvan0.9.31-1mamba- update to 0.9.31
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