On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:18:10 -0500 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:01:33PM +0300, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Can you please add timepps.h to eglibc? This header provides a > > standardized PPSAPI interface (RFC-2783) on top of custom Linux > > recently merged PPS implementation so libc should be the right > > place for this file. It can be then directly used by ntp and chrony > > time synchronization daemons after recompilation. Their respective > > configure scripts should find and use it automatically. > > I don't think glibc/eglibc is the right place for this file. GLIBC is > principally an implementation of the library requirements of the C > and POSIX / Single Unix standards; this is not part of those > standards. Didn't know that glibc implements only POSIX, thanks for the clarification! > Why can't it be a separate package? Debian, for instance, could > easily have the ntp daemon build-depend on PPS support. Sure, it can be. -- Alexander
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