From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 16:34: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.ham.muohio.edu (dragon.ham.muohio.edu [134.53.141.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA6115691; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by dragon.ham.muohio.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26217; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:48:54 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: dragon.ham.muohio.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:48:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Howard X-Sender: howardjp@dragon.ham.muohio.edu To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Steve Kargl , Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libcompat proposition In-Reply-To: <19990812184326.C44972@mad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > src/lib/libgnucompat seems to be the best suggestion so far. I wonder > where the line between libgnucompat and libfreebsdextension is, > though. I've only been active here a few weeks but I've grown used to the "go ahead and do it" I know I'm about to get... Why not call it src/lib/libiberty and create a fully compatable version which is truly free? Quickly glancing through binutils-2.9's libiberty directory on gnudist.gnu.org (this is the cannonical version as near as I can tell) most of it is implemented in libc and quite a few files are PD. How would those functions which also exist in libc (or possibly other libraries, I don't know) be handled? Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message