From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 29 13:48:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DF214C14 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28687 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:48:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA41077 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:48:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C41614C94 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA06367; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:46:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Randell Jesup , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: liblinuxcompat (was Re: stpcpy()) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:20:49 CDT." <19991029152049.F535@holly.calldei.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:46:46 +0200 Message-ID: <6365.941230006@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19991029152049.F535@holly.calldei.com>, Chris Costello writes: >On Fri, Oct 29, 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > The bigger issue of Linux compatibility is essentially what >> >this is leading into. Currently the biggest users of stpcpy are >> >Linux applications. Frankly it's hard enough at this point to >> >deal with problems with the GNU getopt (awfully difficult to port >> >programs using GNU getopt without replicating the getopt() code >> >from glibc). At the same time, there are dozens of other Linux >> >compatibility issues. Putting all these new foreign library >> >calls into libc is not the solution unless we're interested in a >> >larger library. The argument "hardware is cheap" is not valid. >> >> Sounds to me like it's time to add these things to liblinuxcompat.a ? > > I don't see any liblinuxcompat. Are you proposing that one >should be created? yes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message