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Re: glibc on solaris

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:50:57AM +0000, Kristian Van Der Vliet wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 07:08 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:42:49AM -0800, Amit Sharma wrote:
> > > Also, if no one is already doing it, clould I get an
> > > estimate on what might be the effort needed to get it
> > > done.
> > 
> > I think it worked once upon a time.  However, now it is extremely
> > Linux specific; I think it would be a tremendously difficult project.
> > 
> 
> What's Linux specific about Glibc?

Petr summed this up well: more and more every day.

> Current versions have been ported and
> are running on Hurd

Relatively poorly, and as far as I know, only using LinuxThreads -
which is no longer supported in glibc HEAD.  In the future you will
need to come up with either some nasty LinuxThreads hacks, or a way to
port NPTL to your target OS.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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