Full libc?

[MrPuddington]

Would it be possible to include a full libc into the ROM fs?

I am asking because I am fiddling with flvstreamer, and it does not seem to work with libuc. However, I can use the binary from debian mipsel linked against the standard libc, and it works fine! Only setting up libc (and especially ld.so) on a read-only file system is a bit of a pain, hence the question.

Being able to run packages from Debian (stable in this case) might be quite a useful option for some of the more obscure tools.

 

[MrPuddington]

PS: Actually I got flvstreamer to work just fine with libuc. So I will see whether get_iplayer works, too. However, a full libc6 might still be a useful addition.

 

[af123]

It would be possible but it isn't really suitable for the embedded environment. uClibc is optimised for it and should work with almost anything.

To quote from the uClibc FAQ http://uclibc.org/FAQ.html#why

To quote from Ulrich Drepper, the maintainer of GNU libc: "...glibc is not the right thing for [an embedded OS]. It is designed as a native library (as opposed to embedded). Many functions (e.g., printf) contain functionality which is not wanted in embedded systems."