glibc

[Per Lundberg <plundis@chaosdev.org>]

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
poor GNU getopt is and stuff like that, but I managed to find out these
things:

* There doesn't seem to be a glibc port to FreeBSD, so we will probably
have to do it ourselves, if we find it necessary. (see below)

* GNU getopt is ported and even in the ports collection. What I think we
should do, for now, is to make a "cameleont-libc" for FreeBSD, based on
the native libc and with getopt added. This way, we won't have to modify a
lot of packages, and we will be able to get a working system setup even
before we do port glibc (if it becomes necessary, but it might not).

What do you think? Am I on the wrong track here?