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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 11:59:24AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Userprogs are built with the regular kernel compiler $CC.
> A kernel compiler does not necessarily contain a libc which is required
> for a normal userspace application.
> However the kernel tree does contain a minimal libc implementation
> "nolibc" which can be used to build userspace applications.
> 
> Introduce support to build userprogs against nolibc instead of the
> default C of the compiler, which may not exist.
          ^^^
"C library" or maybe "libc" I guess here.

Willy