Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:44:55 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrecord trouble on currnet Message-ID: <19980601234455.27126@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199806011201.OAA16937@sherwood.gmd.de>; from Joerg Schilling on Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 02:01:35PM %2B0200 References: <199806011201.OAA16937@sherwood.gmd.de>
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On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 02:01:35PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: >The problem that I have with the *BSD functions is that they make the programs >non-portable. *BSD programs are often much better than GNU utilities but no-one >can use them outside BSD. > - Put all non standard library extensions into a separate > libbsd and make this library portable. > ( you may add this library to the default library list of the > compiler on *BSD so there will be no need to change makefiles) While I wouldn't advocate FreeBSD dumbing down to satisfy some portability lowest common denominator, I have run into this situation before when wanting to use the FreeBSD version of some utilities on other platforms. It'd be great to have a FreeBSD compatibility library for other OSs. I'm curious as to whether anyone else has done this? At the times I could have used it there more pressing issues so I never did have a go at it myself. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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