Re: glibc

[Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>]

According to Per Lundberg:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Steve Price wrote:
> 
> > # As someone told me, I asked on hackers@freebsd.org if there was a glibc
> > # port to FreeBSD. Of course they started the traditional ranting about how
> >                    ^^^^^^^^^
> > Of course?
> 
> I guess I've got quite some prejudices in this case. No offence intended.
> 
> > Please don't make generalizations about a whole community
> > of people that you haven't met because of what what one person with an
> > opinion said.  Thanks.
> 
> I think my major problem in this case was that I had prejudices before I
> wrote to the list, and people responded in exactly the same way I had
> feared.. oh, well.


	We all come to this table with our own biases; perhaps half of
	which have some merit.


> 
> > Actually I think Warner's suggestion has a lot of merit.  Put
> > getopt_long and friends that are GNU add-ons that aren't in
> > some of the other libcs in libgnu.a and use BSD's libc.
> 
> The problem as I see it, with this solution is that it will require a lot
> of modifications to a lot of (poorly written) programs, and that will be
> quite time-consuming. But of course it's the most "clean" solution.
> 
> > Would someone with more experience with dpkg be willing to take
> > a FreeBSD port and .deb'ize it for me.
> 
> I'm not very sure this is such a good idea. It would be better to do
> "real" debs which adhere to the FSSTND and such. But that would probably
> not be very appreciated by the FreeBSD community.
> 
> > Making .debs of them and introducing more FreeBSD people to the
> > concept would probably be the most bang for the buck short term.
> 
> Perhaps. It would certainly be a step in the right direction. A perl
> script for converting a port to a .deb would probably be the best way to
> go? I don't know enough about the port system to decide whether it's
> doable, though.
> 

	I think that having the real debian packaging stuff would
	be a win for FreeBSD.  It would get FBSD folks used to 
	Debian, for one thing.  For another, it would--as I understand
	it--make keeping everything in-sync lightyears easier.

	Steve, do you understand what the snags are here?

	gary


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