From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 8:16:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918F837B405 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:16:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACBD843F13 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:16:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1043079398.7864d0@mired.org) Received: (qmail 18570 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2003 16:16:38 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 15 Jan 2003 16:16:38 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15909.35174.3324.544848@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:16:38 -0600 To: Atifa Kheel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD libc In-Reply-To: <20030115085033.33585.qmail@web12603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030115085033.33585.qmail@web12603.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030115085033.33585.qmail@web12603.mail.yahoo.com>, Atifa Kheel typed: > Hello, > i want use BSD libc on my linux system. > i want to know from where i can download the source > and if any documentation on this is available,like the > features it supports etc?? FreeBSD is a complete system, not a collection of projects that are put together by people building distributions. I don't believe you can easily download *just* libc. The documentation is included as man pages in the source tree. It's not clear what the best way to get the soruces is. You can go somewhere like: and get slib.*. Those files can be cat'ed togeter, ungzip'ed and the untarred. You can also try fetching the sources from the CVS server. Be aware that you WILL NOT be able to use standard Linux utilities with the FreeBSD libc. There was a project to tweak the FreeBSD user code - libraries and commands - to run on a Linux kernel. I'm not sure what happened to it. If you google through the FreeBSD mail archives, you can probably find a URL for more information. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message