[systemd-devel] Integration with Buildroot (uclibc-based runtime): patches suggested

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 13.07.12 10:13, Dmitry Golubovsky (golubovsky at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> 
> >  Wouldn't it be better (and beneficial to others) to implement missing
> >  functionality in uclibc?
> 
> I am not a maintainer of uclibc (and not a maintainer of buildroot
> either, just a contributor of few packages). I cannot answer this,
> sorry.
> 
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > Looks like. All of these functions seem generally useful and should
> > not be worked around in user code which relies on them.
> 
> I think this is a goal of uclibc (just IMHO) not to implement every
> extension glibc has, saving on code size. Besides there are
> glibc-based toolchains for buildroot, I am just not using them.

Well, implementing this 100 times in 1000 packages instead of once in
uclibc sounds like a recipe for increasing code size, not saving it.

Also, this functionally are really generally useful, so please consider
fixing them in uclibc for the benefit of all its users.

> Well, OK. I suspect that there is not so much interest to accept these
> patches upstream, correct?

Nope, sorry, we generally believe in fixing problems where the problems,
instead of working around them elsewhere.

I hope this is understandable,

Lennart

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