From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 25 21:24:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD1237B43E for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from holly.dyndns.org ([208.191.149.190]) by mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FZV00HANSZ8TF@mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net> for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:11:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA74481; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:11:13 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:11:12 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) In-reply-to: <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net> To: Farid Hajji Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000825231112.K60058@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 |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