Is a pre-compiled uClibc development system available?
If you want to be really lazy and start using uClibc right away without needing to compile your own toolchain or anything, you can grab a pre-compiled uClibc development system. These are currently available for arm, armeb, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, and sh4. These are bzip2 compressed ext2 filesystems containing all the development software you need to build your own uClibc applications, including: bash, awk, make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh, gdb, strace, busybox, GNU coreutils, GNU tar, GNU grep, etc. Each of these uClibc development systems was created using buildroot. These development systems should provide pretty much everything you need to get started building your own applications with uClibc. Once you download one of these systems, you can then boot into it, loop mount it, dd it to a spare drive and use a tool such as resize2fs to make it fill a partition… Whatever works best for you. The quickest way to get started using a root_fs image
