On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 06:47:13PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > Hi! > > >>>>> Marcus Brinkmann writes: > > >> I am hoping that a single source package for glibc can be used to > >> build for either linux or hurd. Is this possible? > > MB> Sure, but this is not as easy as it may sound. The current libc6 > MB> maintainer is overworked, and someone has to change the Debian > MB> building scripts and remove linux specific things like > MB> architecture. > > I've already made several of these changes, which have already been > merged into unstable/main/source/glibc-pre2.1_2.0.100-2.1.diff.gz. > You can cross-compile that package by doing: > > debian/rules build arch=hurd-i386 > > I never finished the job, unfortunately, so the binary-arch rules are > probably wrong for the Hurd, but it should at least give you a > starting point.
Cool. I will investigate that. If we can use it, that would be certainly great. > MB> So it will be faster to use "our" version of glibc for now. Other > MB> ports are building from 2.1 pre versions, this has to be > MB> investigated, too. > > BTW, Marcus... your earlier concern about Linux using a different > dynamic linker than the Hurd has been resolved. As of the > glibc-pre2.1 Debian packages, even the i386 uses the ld.so that is > installed by glibc (since it now has all the functionality of the > older ones). !!! Great news. > I don't think it would be too hard to transition to glibc-2.1, and it > would definitely bring everybody back into sync. Well, i386 is still using 2.0.7. But it is as close as we can be. > Anyway, that's just my opinion, considering that I probably won't be > working on Hurd stuff except on weekends. Oh, that's sad. I hope your weekends are long and rich in numbers! :) Sorry that I reply so late, I was offline quite a long time (unusual for me), and it was unplaned (and unlooked for). I'm back now. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
