YAEL - yet another embedded libc
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 8:43 am
What do you gents say about http://www.musl-libc.org ?
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.musl FAQ wrote: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.
I don't think musl is a good libc for hobby OSes unless you plan on writing everything but a text editor.