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<sect1 id="ch-cross-tools-uclibc" role="wrap">
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  <title>uClibc-&uclibc-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-uclibc">
    <primary sortas="a-uClibc">uClibc</primary>
    <secondary>cross tools</secondary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The uClibc package contains the main C library. This library provides
    the basic routines for allocating memory, searching directories, opening and
    closing files, reading and writing files, string handling, pattern matching,
    arithmetic, and so on.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of uClibc</title>

    <note os="a">
      <para>Below we are just telling uClibc to use its default configuration.
      For those for more adventureous, you can use make menuconfig, and
      do a more custom build for your uClibc installation.</para>
    </note>

    <para os="p1">The following patch contains a number of updates to the
    &uclibc-version; branch by the uClibc developers:</para>

<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&uclibc-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para os="b">Copy the uClibc config file from where you downloaded it:</para>

<screen os="c"><userinput>cp ${CLFS}/sources/uClibc-&uclibc-version;.config .config</userinput></screen>

   <para os="d">We will need to edit the configuration file, to make sure everything gets
   compiled and it's compiled to the proper architecture:</para>

<screen os="e"><userinput>cp .config{,.orig}
sed -e "s@# TARGET_${CLFS_ARCH} is not set@TARGET_${CLFS_ARCH}=y@" \
  -e "s@\(^TARGET_ARCH=\).*@\1\"${CLFS_ARCH}\"@" \
  -e "s@\(^CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX=\).*@\1\"${CLFS_TARGET}-\"@" \
  -e "s@\(^KERNEL_HEADERS=\).*@\1\"${CLFS}/usr/include\"@" \
  -e "s@.*\(^ARCH_${CLFS_NOT_ENDIAN}_ENDIAN\).*@# \1 is not set@g" \
  -e "s@.*\(ARCH_${CLFS_ENDIAN}_ENDIAN\).*@\1=y@g" \
  -e "s@.*\(ARCH_WANTS_${CLFS_ENDIAN}_ENDIAN\).*@\1=y@g" \
  .config.orig > .config</userinput></screen>

    <para os="f">The config is a basic working system, but there are some
    options that are architecture specifc that need to be set. The following
    command will only bring up items that need a value that we did not
    specify in our Generic config file:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make oldconfig</userinput></screen>

    <para os="h">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="i"><userinput>make CROSS=${CLFS_TARGET}- CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc ${BUILD}"</userinput></screen>

    <para os="l">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="j"><userinput>make PREFIX=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-uclibc" role="content">
    <title>Contents of uClibc</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed uClibc</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>To Be Written</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>
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        <term><filename
        class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
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          <para>The Linux API headers</para>
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            <primary
            sortas="e-/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</primary>
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