[yocto-ab] eglibc vs glibc

[Khem Raj]

Hi Bill

Yes. We have, we will keep using eglibc till its 2.20 based release
which will be last eglibc release, which might not make into 1.6
release.  The changes from eglibc are being merged into glibc and here
is live list

http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg01292.html

This list is shrinking but not at a rate that we see it will get fully
merged by 2.19 timeframe.

At this point, I see lot of work if we have to make a switch however
this should reduce and has been reducing as the eglibc features are
pouring into glibc one by one. My suggestion would be to follow
eglibc's merge path and not do it before that since it could be
disruptive.

I would suggest linaro to do the same. helping in migration effort
would be more useful at this point.

Thanks
-Khem



On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:59 AM, William Mills <wmills at ti.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> From Linaro I understand that eglibc is nearing its last release.
> Linaro is planning the transition from eglibc to glibc.
> They are asking what gaps remain in glibc that are important to eglibc
> users.
> We realize that embedded is the most likely where any gaps exist.
> Linaro toolchain builds eglibc but they turn on all the options so they do
> not have a lot of experience on scaling down.
>
> Has oe-core already done or planned the transition to glibc?
> Have we identified any gaps?
> Has any one tried yp-tiny with glibc?
>
> Linaro toolchain group is asking if there are any gaps that need to be
> closed.
> I don't know enough to guide them.
>
> Bill
>