Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-23 Thread Tony Finch
Pavel Cahyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does somebody actually use funopen()? Does it really work? Of course it works. It's used in the BSD version of compress(1) and in libfetch, libftpio, and libz. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ ARDNAMURCHAN POINT TO CAPE WRATH I

Re: Glibc-based GNU/FreeBSD

2003-01-21 Thread Tony Finch
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >btw, i heard some time ago that the FreeBSD people were considering a >Glibc migration. Hahahaha. You heard wrong. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ FAIR ISLE: CYCLONIC BECOMING NORTHEASTERLY 6 TO GALE 8. RAIN. MODERATE OR GOO

Re: Glibc and NetBSD

2002-07-23 Thread Tony Finch
Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The problem I'm having is that I can't get freebsd sources to build on >top of glibc. The library and utility sources that I need seem to be >wanting a lot of stuff that simply isn't in the glibc headers. It would be nice if some of the bloat in glibc

Re: Autoconf build targets

2002-05-19 Thread Tony Finch
Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Matthew Garrett wrote: >> >>1) Modify the kernel build so uname -v includes "Debian" >>2) config.guess currently produces i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.5. Under Linux, >>this is i386-pc-linux-gnu. Adding i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.5-gnu (or >>possibly even just i38

Re: Multiple topics

2002-04-09 Thread Tony Finch
>1) FreeBSD 5.0 pre-release... does anyone know if it's GCC 3.x clean? How clean do you mean? The standard compiler in -CURRENT is a gcc 3.1 snapshot. >2) pmake (aka /usr/src/usr.bin/make) - the source tree for this on the >various BSD flavors differ significantly, but all appear to share some >b

Re: Booting

2002-03-19 Thread Tony Finch
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >It doesn't matter what GRUB includes, the thing which matters if the >FreeBSD bootloader and kernel can be modified to use the multiboot >specification. I think that's possible. It would be nice. >Miltiboot does support passing modules. The actual link

Re: Booting

2002-03-18 Thread Tony Finch
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Reading quickly the things supported, I think those things can be >passed from the loader to the kernel using the multiboot >specification. FreeBSD doesn't need to abandon its bootloader and the >way of doing things, just change it to use the multiboot >

Re: Booting

2002-03-10 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:44:14PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > > (i'm not suggesting i'm advocating that netbsd proper will switch > to a /boot dir -- that's someone else's problem. i was mostly > pointing out that the default /boot as a file isn't a problem.) Agreed :-) Tony.

Re: Booting

2002-03-10 Thread Tony Finch
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > The NetBSD loader is, unsurprisingly, not subject to this restriction. I'd > be tempted to go with packaging this and using it as our primary boot > mechanism unless anyone objects. The one problem I can think of is that it > stores the bootcode

Re: make-bsd, pmake, and /usr/share/mk, oh my

2002-02-20 Thread Tony Finch
> I'd been under the impression that pmake was some sort of parallel make > (though I'm not sure why), so that can probably be assumed to just be me > being stupid. I don't see any reason not to use pmake instead (other than > it being a bit out of date). > >it is. parallel make that is.

Re: sys/socket.h and source defines

2002-02-19 Thread Tony Finch
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >i'm not sure that NetBSD 1.5 has the "uintN_t" family of types or not. It has both the old Unix inttypes.h and the C99 stdint.h. Tony.

Re: thoughts on architectures

2002-02-14 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:13:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I guess I'll have to see about coding support for .note.ABI-tag sometime. > Think they'd accept a patch for that? Probably the best person to contact directly about this is David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who is the toolchai

Re: thoughts on architectures

2002-02-11 Thread Tony Finch
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I need to look into it a bit more, and figure out exactly what FreeBSD does >and doesn't do with this. Everything you need to know is in /usr/src/sys/kern/imgact_elf.c: /* We support three types of branding -- (1) the ELF EI_OSABI field

Re: ed package

2002-02-03 Thread Tony Finch
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Sounds good. I'm going to see if I can patch that implementation into the >FreeBSD libc. That would solve a lot of headaches for me. FreeBSD's libc already has getopt, since it has been in BSD libc for over 16 years. But getopt_long is another matter.