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From: Ray Kohler <rkohler1@cox.rr.com>
To: "Mihail Stoyanov" <freemind@mail.bulgaria.com>,
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Subject: Re: Troubles with installation of glibc 2.2.4
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:48:04 -0500
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On Sunday 20 January 2002 09:45 am, Mihail Stoyanov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Mihail Stoyanov and I'm using FreeBSD as a
> desktop OS. I like to keep my system up-to-date but I
> encountered some difficulties while installing glibc 2.2.4.
> My FreeBSD is version 4.4-RELEASE. When I tried to configure
> glibc 2.2.4 I got the following message:
> "freemind# ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd4.4
> *** The GNU C library is currently not available for this
> platform.
> *** So far nobody cared to port it and if there is no
> volunteer it
> *** might never happen.  So, if you have interest to see
> glibc on
> *** this platform visit
> ***     http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/porting.html
> *** and join the group of porters"
>
> I would be very glad if you can help me install glibc (my
> default version is 2.1.2). Thank you for your time and
> consideration.

FreeBSD doesn't use glibc at all. We have our own libc. 

The way to keep your system up to date is to use cvsup and make 
world; read 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
to find out what I'm talking about.

-- 
Ray Kohler
A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that
your wife will give you for free.

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