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Re: Porting glibc to Macintosh


On Sep 19, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:54:49PM -0500, Perry Smith wrote:
When I do "configure" for glibc, it tells me that glibc has not been ported to
darwin. I would think it would not be too hard to do that and I'm a bit
surprised it hasn't been done.

You are almost certainly wrong; it would be months of work. You may be able to extract the iconv library to use it separately, though.

Are you sure? darwin is the Mac OS X operating system. It is mostly BSD Unix. There are comments in a few places about darwin already.


e.g.

* sysdeps/mach/powerpc/sysdep.h (_MACH_MACHINE_ASM_H): Define this
before include <sysdeps/mach/sysdep.h>, to inhibit <mach/ machine/asm.h>
on Darwin, which includes bogons.

It may be that the platform I'm using is intel based. I'm not sure what the deal is.


Thanks for your help,
Perry Smith ( pedz@easesoftware.com )
Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com )

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