For a new userland, I'd simply use the latest BusyBox

Now there's a good idea. I'll look into it. Another thing I'd get round to investigating if v3 were a proper project is linking the player itself against uclibc -- there must be a load of stuff in glibc, even a static link, that we don't need. Locales, for instance. Anyone know whether uclibc gets timezones right?

Peter