Subject: Gentoo (x86|ppc|arm)-uClibc experimental stages ready for consumption
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel, gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.general
Date: 2004-10-22 21:08:11 GMT (3 years, 50 weeks, 6 days, 17 hours and 1 minute ago)
As Gentoo gets ready for it's 2004.3 release cycle we have prepared a number of uClibc stages (aka development environments) that need testing. The arches we are initially supporting right now are x86, ppc and arm little endian. http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/x86/embedded/stages/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/ppc/embedded/stages/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/arm/embedded/stages/ x86: 8.2M stage1-x86-uclibc-20040927.tar.bz2 16M stage2-x86-uclibc-20040927.tar.bz2 34M stage3-x86-uclibc-20040927.tar.bz2 9.0M stage1-x86-uclibc-hardened-2004.3.tar.bz2 17M stage2-x86-uclibc-hardened-2004.3.tar.bz2 37M stage3-x86-uclibc-hardened-2004.3.tar.bz2 Set 1 is your std i386/-Os stages Set 2 (these are the ones I like) are complete Position Independent Executables and coupled with with IBM's SSP piessp add a slight bit of size overhead compared to your standard x86 stages but offers much better security protections which make them an ideal starting point for your x86 uClibc based security projects. http://lwn.net/Articles/106214/ ppc: Nothing special here. With some luck we may have ppc-pie in the future. 9.7M stage1-ppc-uclibc-2004.3.tar.bz2 22M stage2-ppc-uclibc-2004.3.tar.bz2 41M stage3-ppc-uclibc-2004.3.tar.bz2 arm: 9.3M stage1-arm-uclibc-2004.3.tar.bz2 19M stage2-arm-uclibc-2004.3.tar.bz2 39M stage3-arm-uclibc-2004.3.tar.bz2 You can use these stages to build packages for your zaurus/netwinders or whatever your desire is. In the future after this release cycle we plan to offer arm big endian stages as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- As always bug reports go to http://bugs.gentoo.org first. Bug reports to the uClibc mailing list about these stages will result in you being flamed for not paying attention. Thanks to all those of you that have done bug testing, reporting and submitted patches or helped in the fundamental design of things. (Mike/Peter/iggy/Koon..) enjoy.. -- Ned Ludd <solar <at> gentoo.org> Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded) Developer