Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-27 Thread Wes Peters
Farid Hajji wrote: > > > > > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > > > > or medium future? > Thanks for all your replies. I perfectly understand the reasons for avoiding > GNU copylefted code like glibc in FreeBSD. Using the Hurd/Mach as kernel > replacement for F

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-26 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) > some time ago and it may be useful to do the same in FreeBSD too. Nope. The license for glibc is not one we'd want to use for such a core component

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-26 Thread Farid Hajji
> > > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > > > or medium future? Thanks for all your replies. I perfectly understand the reasons for avoiding GNU copylefted code like glibc in FreeBSD. Using the Hurd/Mach as kernel replacement for FreeBSD would indeed require addi

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Farid Hajji writes: >Hello, > >[please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > >are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near >or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) >some time ago and it m

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Saturday, August 26, 2000, Farid Hajji wrote: > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) > some time ago and it may be useful to do the same in FreeBSD too. There are no such plans for tha

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Wes Peters
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Farid Hajji wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > [please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > > > > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > > or medium future? > > I think I can safely say: > > "No." No

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Farid Hajji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000825 21:03] wrote: > Hello, > > [please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) > some time a

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread David Greenman
>[please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > >are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near >or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) >some time ago and it may be useful to do the same in FreeBSD too. No, that is no

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Farid Hajji wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > [please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > > > > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > > or medium future? > > I think I can safel

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Farid Hajji wrote: > Hello, > > [please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > or medium future? I think I can safely say: "No." Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must subm

Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Farid Hajji
Hello, [please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) some time ago and it may be useful to do the same in FreeBSD too. The reason I'm