The following packages can now be had from the archive on debian-bsd.lightbearer.com: libc12 libc12-dev libc12-dbg libc12-pic libc12-prof The following libraries are provided (in /lib as dynamic libraries, and the usual places for static, debug, pic, and profiling libraries): libc libm (+arch-dependant libm if relevant, ie libm387) libarch (if relevant; ie libi386) libcrypt libipsec libkvm libposix libresolv libutil The following I18N libraries are also available under /usr/lib/i18n, and follow the normal setup (though they do not appear to build PIC and profiling libraries for some reason, which has a FIXME in the TODO list). libBIG5 libEUC libEUCTW libISO2022 libMSKanji libUTF8 Also present are the usual suspects from libc6 and libc6-dev, in their NetBSD forms: rpcgen, gencat, zic, ldd, ld.so (and ld.elf_so), etc. WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING This package puts ld.so and ld.elf_so in /lib (where Policy requires it to be), and provides symlinks from /libexec and /usr/libexec so that NetBSD native apps (and Debian apps compiled prior to the as-yet-unsubmitted patch for GCC) can still find them. This means that installing it MAY SCREW UP YOUR DYNAMIC BINARIES. That means, among other things, that your system may be unable to finish installing the packages, and require manual intervention. In theory, it should unpack /lib/ld* first, before putting the links into the other two places, and as such, it *shouldn't* wreak too much havoc, but I cannot guarantee that on all systems. Please make absolutely sure you have a recovery method if things go wrong, before attempting to install this package on a working system! Note that fresh installs should not have any issue, however (that is, unpacking things with debootstrap once we get it working), nor should upgrades of libc12 from this package to later versions. WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING Also note that if you have a copy of one of my hand-build libc12 packages, this package is versioned *lower* than that (1.6+debian.1 < 12.83-0). Sorry about that, but concensus was that we should use the release versioning rather than the major/minor of libc. Do dpkg -i rather than -iEG. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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