8 Aug 2003 lethal   » (Master)

Did a number of non-kernel things today -- which in itself doesn't seem to happen very often. Ported uClibc CVS HEAD to sh64 this morning, based off of some ancient patches from SuperH. Nothing too exciting port-wise, static linking is the only thing that really works at the moment, as I still have to sit down and hack on the ldso and libpthread interfaces, but I'll leave that for another day. A static hello world stripped comes in at a hefty 41k, which certainly has glibc beat. Patches off to andersee, and should hopefully be merged soon. So far so good.

Also spent some time hacking on a simple RDF/RSS parser using libxml2. This is a result of not being able to find a suitable tool that did what I wanted. Originally I was going to hack this into mutt directly, but it seems much more logical to roll this into some sort of fetchmail-like tool for doing the initial fetching/parsing/sorting. Then I can dump this stuff straight into mbox format and pick it up through mutt that way (since I can also add the mailboxes directly and get notification on updates, while keeping the fetching tool running in the background). I suppose another alternative would be to hack this into fetchmail directly, but the tools are different enough that this probably isn't an overly useful approach (not to mention the blatant disregard for sane headers).

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