YAEL - yet another embedded libc

[dozniak]

What do you gents say about http://www.musl-libc.org ?

[Kazinsal]

Not a good option:

What are musl’s dependencies?
Linux 2.6 or later. Earlier versions will suffice for running most simple single-threaded programs, but due to bugs and conformance issues at the kernel level, musl is not offically supported on earlier kernels.

A fair number of programs seem to fail to build with it without proper patching. Seems to not have termcap support in the library other than "we can use ncurses", which breaks irssi out of the box, for example. It can compile nano and AbiWord, but it can't compile ex. MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 don't build, but 5.5 does.

I don't think musl is a good libc for hobby OSes unless you plan on writing everything but a text editor.

[dozniak]

Ugh. *crosses out musl*

Thanks Blacklight!