From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 3:34:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F9437B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:34:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from absd.org (descent.purplei.com [217.207.251.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC7F43E4A for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:34:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abs@absd.org) Received: from abs by absd.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18awg7-0005fe-00; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:34:51 +0000 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:34:51 +0000 (GMT) From: David Brownlee To: Andreas Schuldei Cc: "Neal H. Walfield" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, debian-bsd@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: glibc vs BSD libc In-Reply-To: <20030120202540.GG30396@lukas> Message-ID: References: <20030120130538.74079.qmail@web12606.mail.yahoo.com> <87bs2bpufr.fsf@bassanio.walfield.org> <20030120202540.GG30396@lukas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > i understood him this way: glibcs *portability* is large, since > it is not only portabel over several archs but also over several > kernels. > > bsds libc is less portable (only accross different archs) so its > portability is smaller. At a source or a binary level? A NetBSD 1.6 box can run NetBSD 1.0 binaries, complete with their shared libraries. A NetBSD 1.0 binary should even run against a NetBSD 1.6 libc (modulus a.out or ECOFF changes to ELF). -- David Brownlee - CTO Purple Interactive - (0)20 8742 8880 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message