Re: Porting glibc to OS-X

[Robert Millan <zeratul2 at wanadoo dot es>]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:21:00PM -0700, Daniel Kegel wrote:
> Justin wrote:
> >I have used gcc and glibc on my slack-box for several years and become
> >familiar with writing programs for Linux. Recently I decided to purchase a
> >Mac, which is the reason that I have written. I have an interest in porting
> >this library to OS X, because some software that I want to build expects to
> >find glibc. 
> 
> It would probably be more productive to figure
> out how to build the software under MacOSX natively.
> There are plenty of good Unix systems out there not
> running glibc, and good software should not depend
> unneccessarily on glibc.

>From my experience as Debian GNU/k*BSD (Debian GNU with Glibc and kernel of
FreeBSD) porter I can say without hesitation that using GNU libc instead of
FreeBSD libc had a drasticaly positive effect on the porting effort. I'd
expect similar situations (e.g. GNU/Darwin) to behave the same, but you have
to actualy try and compare if you have doubts.

-- 
Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
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