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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:16:46 +0100
From:      "Marco van de Voort" <marcov@stack.nl>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GNU C Library?
Message-ID:  <20000915121546.8A3342E802@hermes.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009141833340.51999-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <39BEF42C.6A2A66A9@glue.umd.edu>

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> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> 
> > How does one get the GNU libc libraries on freebsd? I'm trying to port sgi's fam
> > utility and its looking for mntent.h. From looking at a copy of mntent.h from a
> > linux distro it appears that its part of GNU's libc, but I don't see a port for
> > it and I don't see it in the base system. In fact I don't even see were to
> > download it from.
> 
> It hasnt been ported (i.e. it doesnt run on FreeBSD), and you probably
> dont need it anyway.

If you need GNU extensions (and if they aren't packaged), you could 
check out the GDB source. IIRC they package some of the gnu 
extensions  separate, for libc's that don't have the "extensions"

Marco van de Voort (MarcoV@Stack.nl or marco@freepascal.org)




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