On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:21:04PM -0500, Perry E.Metzger wrote: > > Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I haven't been following too closely. Could someone explain what the > >> issue is? Obviously XFree works fine on NetBSD -- I'm using it at this > >> very moment. Given that it works fine on NetBSD, what's the issue? > > > > Crucial issues mostly amounted to differences between libraries linked to > > on NetBSD and those linked to by default under Linux (which, prior to the > > patches, XFree86 assumed for Debian). > [...] > > Apart from that, it was mostly stuff like "where do man pages live", "how > > do I call <X> userland utility", etc - most of that is in the NetBSD.cf > > patch. > > Okay, so it wasn't functional issues, it was integration issues. Gotcha.
Just like with the Glibc-based port. I haven't had to write code for a new kernel, or for a new C library, since both KNetBSD (K for 'kernel of') and Glibc are supported in Xfree86. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
