From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 1 19:22:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net (smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCEBB37B424 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 19:22:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 27205 invoked from network); 2 May 2001 01:18:19 -0000 Received: from mail1.ha-net.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([207.44.96.65]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 May 2001 01:18:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 14664 invoked from network); 2 May 2001 02:22:14 -0000 Received: from du52.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([204.186.33.52]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 May 2001 02:22:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3AEF6F05.837D4405@mail.ptd.net> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 22:20:53 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD libc for Linux? References: <20010430172143.A9910@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brooks Davis wrote: > > For lack of any where better to ask, I'll try chat. Does any one know > of a working port of a BSD libc for a modern Linux (RedHat 6.x, SuSE 6.y, > etc.) I ask because I've got some scientific code that's more or less > pure ANSI C that works just fine producing the same or nearly the same > results on FreeBSD, Solaris, Irix, and even Alpha Linux, but on i386 > Linux it produces wildly different (though consistant) results. I'm > hoping for an easy to way to figure out it it's the kernel or glibc. What about running the Linux version on FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message