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1.5     ! fefe        1:   The system library is a challenge to all those using the computer to
        !             2:   write their own faster and better routines or to bow to the superior
        !             3:   strength and skill of a true master.
        !             4:        --http://www.inner.net/users/cmetz/program-like-a-klingon
        !             5: 
1.2       fefe        6: diet libc to statically link programs that don't need all the bloat
1.1       cvs         7: from glibc.
                      8: 
                      9: malloc, printf and scanf contributed from Olaf Dreesen.
                     10: 
1.3       fefe       11: To compile:
1.1       cvs        12: 
1.3       fefe       13:        $ make
                     14: 
                     15: make should compile the diet libc itself without warnings.  In addition
                     16: to the diet libc, the default make target includes t, which is a test
                     17: program and probably contains code which produces warnings.  You can
                     18: safely ignore them.
                     19: 
                     20: When make is done, it will have created dietlibc.a in bin-i386 (or
                     21: bin-ppc, bin-alpha, bin-sparc, bin-ppc or bin-arm, depending on your
                     22: architecture).  In that directory you will also find a program called
                     23: "diet", which you need to copy in a directory in your $PATH:
                     24: 
                     25:        # install bin-i386/diet /usr/local/bin
                     26: 
                     27: Then you can compile programs by prepending diet to the command line,
                     28: i.e.
                     29: 
                     30:        $ diet gcc -s -Os -pipe -o t t.c
                     31: 
                     32: diet is cross-compiler friendly and can also be used like this:
                     33: 
                     34:        $ diet sparc-linux-gcc -o t t.c
                     35: 
                     36: diet will then link against dietlibc.a from bin-sparc, of course.
                     37: diet comes with a man page (diet.1), which you can copy to an
                     38: appropriate location, too:
                     39: 
                     40:        # cp diet.1 /usr/local/man/man1
                     41: 
                     42: After you compiled the diet libc successfully, I invite you to check out
                     43: the embedded utils (http://www.fefe.de/embutils/) and the diet libc
                     44: binary repository (ftp://foobar.math.fu-berlin.de/pub/dietlibc/), too.
                     45: The embedded utils are small replacements for common utilities like mv,
                     46: chown, ls, and even a small tar that can extract tar files.  The binary
                     47: repository contains a few utilities I linked against the diet libc, for
                     48: example gzip, bzip2 and fdisk.
1.4       fefe       49: 
                     50: 
                     51: The license for the diet libc is the GNU General Public License, version
                     52: 2 (as included in the file COPYING).  The glob() and entlib sources were
                     53: contributed and are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
                     54: License, as available on http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html.