On 02/27/2013 03:08 AM, Martin wrote: > Thanks for the all the help, i am sorry if i offended anyone as i > truly did not intend to offend anyone with my second post. I just know > from experience that some communities are not as willing to provide > source to newcomers as others even when it is open-source and for > understandable reasons. The comment is in no way a reflection of what > i think about your willingness to help, and i am very appreciative of > the help given. I honestly had the feeling people may not know as it > is 10 years or more ago. Thank you. > > One last question and excuse me for my lack of knowledge in this, but > with such limited resources from the Debian GNU/NetBSD project, how > much of the current GNU userland tools (i.e. glibc etc) are > transferable across without modification to persay the NetBSD kernel? > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Arno Töll <a...@debian.org > <mailto:a...@debian.org>> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 26.02.2013 08 <tel:26.02.2013%2008>:44, Martin wrote: > > So i thought maybe from such a little response, people either > don't know or > > are unwilling to provide for some random who appears to have > just joined > > the mailing list. > > just for the archives, we're all willing to help in cases where we > /can/ > help. However, as Steven said in a later post in this thread most > of use > barely know more than you do on that case. > > The kNetBSD project was dead long before most of us joined Debian. > > -- > with kind regards, > Arno Töll > IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC > GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D > >
I've got limited experience here, but my reason for looking for the glibc port was just that porting glibc is a hardcore thing to do. So you better pray you won't have to do that.
