Bug#147006: ITP: freebsd -- Packaged FreeBSD kernel, libc an
Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> There is no port of glibc, no. glibc had support for BSD 4.3, but
> apparently hasn't been used or maintained since glibc1. All three BSD
> ports are based on native libc's, not glibc.
>
> It causes inconveniences from time to time, but porting glibc appears to
> be more work than adapting Debian to live without it. This hasn't been
> as hard as you might think. Most Debian packages already run on the
> BSD's, anyway, so the major headaches tend to come from very Linux or
> Debian specific packages.
>
> If you or anyone else wants to port glibc, I'll be happy to use it when
> you get it working. ;-)
Glibc has been recently ported [1] to the FreeBSD kernel by Bruno Haible.
I have just made up a chroot GNU/FreeBSD build environment [2] that is
minimaly sane (it's able to build the whole toolchain within it), although
there are still some bugs. (help is needed, see the link for details)
Nathan, if by the time we have a working system that can bootstrap Debian
(ie, ready to upload) you are still in trouble (don't have time, bandwidth,
or even space to setup your computers [3]), I will take this ITP.
[1] http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu-freebsd/
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2003/debian-bsd-200305/msg00002.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2003/debian-bsd-200305/msg00000.html
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