[ Please keep me on CC, not subscribed ] Hi there,
I came across your projects to build Darwin-based GNU systems, and found them quite interesting. Just as a suggestion to help you, I'd like to point out that Glibc is ported (or being ported) to Darwin. For details on the port status, refer to http://sourceforge.net/projects/glibc-darwin/ As I have experience with porting Debian/GNU userland for _both_ Glibc-based and BSD-libc-based GNU/*BSD systems, I can tell with much reliability that using Glibc is a _huge_ advantage over other C libraries when it comes to porting userland like GNU and Debian that traditionaly is written with GNU libc in mind. When porting to BSD-libc-based, the task was real porting like what the *BSD developers do for their systems, but when porting to GNU-libc-based, porting was more like adding a new test case in triplet checks and trivial things like that. Please see this article in DP to get an idea on the advantages using Glibc brought me for the Debian GNU/FreeBSD port: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=968 Let me know if you have any success with Glibc-based GNU/Darwin systems. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
