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Re: glibc port to kfreebsd/mips
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Robert Millan <rmh at debian dot org>
- Cc: debian-bsd at lists dot debian dot org, debian-mips at lists dot debian dot org, freebsd-mips at freebsd dot org, libc-ports at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:29:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: glibc port to kfreebsd/mips
- References: <AANLkTimMZAMX6ymhXRhaxng3_xOjHB-MK07fqtrpPv9c@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/25/2011 9:40 AM, Robert Millan wrote:
> This is work in progress: http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_MIPS
Cool!
> The good:
>
> - Basic userland working. Tested: bash, coreutils, gdb, make, binutils, gcc
>
> The bad:
>
> - Static binaries only; Dynamic linker crashes (both ld.so and libdl,
> although libdl works for small objects).
> - NSS (hence getpwuid et al) crashes as it relies on libdl.
> - TLS not implemented as it requires some kernel fixes first.
> - Thread support not implemented either (but LinuxThreads is needed for build).
Please don't use LinuxThreads for a new port. It is unmaintained.
Is there any reason you aren't using NPTL? Lack of futex-compatible
syscall?
> The ugly:
>
> - Doesn't work on QEMU yet (gxemul works though).
>
Cheers,
Carlos.
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