Re: glibc (or libc6)

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Christoph Lameter) wrote:
> I just had a look at the sources for glibc and it looks like they are
> doing NIS caching for both /etc/passwd and /etc/group which would solve
> our NIS problems here.
> 
> Is anyone working on glibc? I remember vaguely that we planned
> to put glibc into bo, right? (Where is bo, BTW?)

I'll be sending the debian/* files to the glibc team this week, I hope.
They really want to integrate the Debian packaging files into the glibc
source distribution.

I use glibc only on the DEC Alpha -and building glibc an a AXP 150 takes
oh, 4 hours... so I can't work fast, alas.

Mike.
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