Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:11:12 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Farid Hajji <farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) Message-ID: <20000825231112.K60058@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net> References: <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net>
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On Saturday, August 26, 2000, Farid Hajji wrote: > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) > some time ago and it may be useful to do the same in FreeBSD too. There are no such plans for that type of downgrade. If the software you need to use externally calls nonstandard C library functions consider porting the library and linking it manually, or fixing the software: cc -o my-hurd-program -nostdlib -lglibc ... or something along those lines. -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |You can't make a program without broken egos. `--------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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