Hi everyone,
Most of you know that uclibc upstream is pretty much dead. There hasn't
been a official release since 2012 and there hasn't been a commit to
their master branch for over a year. The situation has become
impossible since important fixes really can't be backported without
layers of intermediated fixes being backported first. This has lead to
a fork at http://uclibc-ng.org/ which is actively maintained and has all
of the fixes we need in the latest release.
Since I don't want to just give up on Gentoo + uclibc, I'm going to
migrate to uclibc-ng. (Parenthetically let me add that I think the real
future of embedded will be musl, but still I don't want to just give up
on uclibc.)
After migrating, I will pretty much abandon uclibc itself and continue
exclusively with uclibc-ng. The supported arches are and will continue
to be amd64, armv7a (hard/soft float), mips32r2 (big endian), mipsel3
(little endian), ppc and i686. The process will be as follows:
1. Build experimental stage3's with customize /etc/portage. This is
just for testing since the final stage3's should not have anything in
/etc/portage. This must be completed for all arches before the next step.
2. Migrate the customized /etc/portage to profiles/default/linux/uclibc
for all arches, and switch the priority in virtual/libc/libc-0.ebuild.
Currently it reads:
elibc_uclibc? ( || ( sys-libs/uclibc sys-libs/uclibc-ng ) )
3. Update https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc with
instructions on how to upgrade.
4. Start pushing out uclibc-ng base stages
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ for amd64 and i686.
I'm at step 1 for amd64 and i686.
I welcome comment on any of the above.
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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