Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:22:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Damon M. Conway" <damon@chiba.3jane.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: porting question Message-ID: <199911242322.PAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:13:05 CST." <199911242313.RAA00460@chiba.3jane.net>
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> hi, i'm interested in porting some linux apps to freebsd to help me start > learning c better. i think my first project is to port mnemonic to > freebsd. i was wondering if there is a good resource that describes the > differences between glibc2.1 and the libc that freebsd uses. i have a > feeling i'm going to be searching through the sources to find similar > functionality between them, but i thought i'd ask first. glibc and the FreeBSD C library are basically meant to cover the same things. Unfortunately, glibc suffers from the "kitchen sink" syndrome. As a general rule, once you've ported to FreeBSD, the code should still build on Linux, and you'll have a much more portable result. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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