I'm new in this list and I want to start with a qustion about a thing that was appened to me and that I've seen appened to other peoples in Linux-C mailing list also. Why I can't compile glibc from sources in a Debian system ?
I don't know, I compile glibc from sources on Debian systems all the time, both with and without patches.
When I've done it and my system become inusable someone told me that I _must_ apply the Debian patch to the original sources.
None of the patches applied to the source are required for a functional libc.
I'll be happy if someone could explain me ( with few words ), why the patch is needed.
Patches applied in the Debian version of the GNU C Library:
localedata-zh_TW.Big5: zh_TW.Big5 locale definition
localedata-eo_EO: locale definition for Esperanto
localedata-charmap-BIG5_1984: BIG5_1984 character map
localedata-SUPPORTED: Extra locales for localedata/SUPPORTED file.
ldd: Remove "you do not have execution permission for" warning. Hack around non-executable file shrodinbug.
glibcbug: Use sensible-editor instead of emacs
sparc-linux-chown: chown() compatibility for old Debian/sparc binaries
sparc-linux-ldd: Don't test for libc4 in ldd for SPARC.
m68k-linux-chown: Fix chown/lchown handling for Linux2.0/2.2 kernels
hurd-ldflags: avoid linking libmachuser and libhurduser against libc
fhs-linux-paths: Correct linux paths for FHS
generic-getenv: 1999-09-10 Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* sysdeps/generic/getenv.c (getenv): Fix lookup for single
character variable on bigendian platforms without unaligned memory
access.pthread_create-manpage: Correct pthread_create manpage to match texinfo documentation -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>
