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musl libc Reaches 1.0 Milestone

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the ilibc-ulibc-we-all-C-for-libc dept.

dalias writes

"The musl libc project has released version 1.0, the result of three years of development and testing. Musl is a lightweight, fast, simple, MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to the GNU C library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic. At this point musl provides all mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces (plus a lot of widely-used extensions), and well over 5000 packages are known to build successfully against musl.

Several options are available for trying musl. Compiler toolchains are available from the musl-cross project, and several new musl-based Linux distributions are already available (Sabotage and Snowflake, among others). Some well-established distributions including OpenWRT and Gentoo are in the process of adding musl-based variants, and others (Aboriginal, Alpine, Bedrock, Dragora) are adopting musl as their default libc."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @03:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @03:08PM (#18906)

    This is the first time I have heard of this new lib.

    Good for you?

    What was the reasoning on re-inventing the wheel? Licienceing problems, arrogent devolopers on other project, or just for the hell of it?

    To make something better than the shitpile called glibc.

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