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Re: Don't know if it can help...



begin  Colin Watson quotation:
> that clause is there to allow GNU systems to be legally built on
> systems with proprietary C libraries and such, which was the
> situation before things like the Linux (and later GNU) C Library
> were written.

	The "Linux libc" up until version 5 was based on glibc 1.x.
It was a fork.  Version six of the linux libc just happens to be an
unforked glibc version 2.x.

	The GNU C library came first.

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