[yocto-ab] eglibc vs glibc

[Stewart, David C]

On 12/11/13 9:15 AM, "William Mills" <wmills at ti.com> wrote:

>On 12/11/2013 12:10 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:59 PM, 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.
>> Couldn't this be discussed in the OpenEmbedded-Core mailing list? I
>> think there are way more people capable of providing feedback on this
>> subject.
>>
>
>I am not comfortable discussing the Linaro background on OE-core.
>I certainly expect any technical discussion to occur on oe-core.
>Here I am asking the oe-core "lifers" to point me to any such work in
>progress or clue me to know status.

We should all be concerned about the end of eglibc support and we should
definitely think about moving to glibc.
So I think that would be the basis of the question.
In fact, I'm happy to ask oe-core that very question. :-)