Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:49:59 -0600 (MDT) | From | Teunis Peters <> | Subject | Re: glibc 2, Linux 2.x and the world of many patches! |
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On 30 Jul 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "mdh" == Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes: > > Tuenis> Though adoption will have to be MUCH higher before any of > Tuenis> the linux-distribs actively go with glibc... and this will > Tuenis> hurt glibc in the short run. > > mdh> Uh ... er ... I don't know how to break this to you ... but > mdh> the Debian development tree is based on glibc. Applications > mdh> are being ported faster than you can shake a stick. It's not > mdh> very hard ... even I've ported a few, and believe me, if I > mdh> can do it, anyone can do it. > > Yep, Michael is exactly right. Debian 2.0 will be fully glibc. I'm the > maintainer of nethack, The GIMP, and sirc, and they've all been > compiled just fine under glibc. The only bugs I've run into are people > not doing a #include <errno.h> when they really should :)
<g>. Don't ferget misspelled and mistyped 'sys_errlist[]'... <sigh>. Just include <stdio.h>, eh? [though both variants are wrapped in __USE_BSD or __USE_GNU so <hrmmm>] (_sys_errlist == GNU, sys_errlist == BSD)
> About half of all of the Debian packages, I believe, have been > converted to glibc.
And I've heard that RedHat is as well, which seems to cover the really visible distribs. GOOD! (so no more linux-1.2 -> linux-2.0 type jumps!)
Well - I _DID_ come into the glibc-usage quite late (2.0.4 just appeared)... So perhaps all that time was used productively, yes? <g> I was just pretty frustrated at having to fix everything I use every day (svgalib, ipfwadm, net-tools*, pppd [which I don't need anymore :], pthreads, samba, all my mod players <sanity> ....) : apparently net-tools, pppd, ipfwadm have been fixed <G>. : pthreads should be obvious :) - it's built-in! : samba? is there a new samba yet?
Hey - maybe pthreads and svgalib will coexist finally! <nah...>
And before anyone screams 'This has nothing to do with linux devel' just remember that this list is for linux-kernel probs too... which are frequently in userspace. And the libc's are used pretty close to universally as userspace<->kernelspace link.
G'day all! - Teunis
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