Re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD
Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> writes:
>> I haven't been following too closely. Could someone explain what the
>> issue is? Obviously XFree works fine on NetBSD -- I'm using it at this
>> very moment. Given that it works fine on NetBSD, what's the issue?
>
> Crucial issues mostly amounted to differences between libraries linked to
> on NetBSD and those linked to by default under Linux (which, prior to the
> patches, XFree86 assumed for Debian).
[...]
> Apart from that, it was mostly stuff like "where do man pages live", "how
> do I call <X> userland utility", etc - most of that is in the NetBSD.cf
> patch.
Okay, so it wasn't functional issues, it was integration issues. Gotcha.
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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