Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > glibc is very nice software, but it is not a model > of adherence to GNU or portability standards.
Whoops. Don't want to sound *too* inflammatory :-) Let me rephrase: glibc doesn't bend over backwards to support losing C compilers (or any non-gcc ones?) or many of the older environments that gnulib still accommodates.