On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Tim Spriggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Bartley wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> blastwave seems to have glibc OpenSolaris porting. >>> >> >> >From what I can tell, all the blastwave stuff links against >> /lib/libc.so.1, which would be sun's libc. Perhaps you are thinking of >> glib (a GNOME library)? If not, if you could provide a link I would >> appreciate it (I've found nothing on google so far). >> > > According to http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/FAQ.html#s-1.1: > > The systems glibc is known to work on as of this release, and most probably > in the future, are: > > *-*-gnu GNU Hurd > i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Intel > m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Motorola 680x0 > alpha*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on DEC Alpha > powerpc-*-linux-gnu Linux and MkLinux on PowerPC systems > powerpc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on 64-bit PowerPC systems > sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC > sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC > arm-*-none ARM standalone systems > arm-*-linux Linux-2.x on ARM > arm-*-linuxaout Linux-2.x on ARM using a.out binaries > mips*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on MIPS > ia64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on ia64 > s390-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390 > s390x-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390 64-bit > cris-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on CRIS > > > > I think glibc is very Linux specific, sometimes even down to the kernel > version and porting to Solaris would be a very non-trivial task, it's > probably better to tweak (correct) your source to run with Sun's libc and > send the patch upstream if possible.
glibc has also been ported to freebsd[0][1]. Neither freebsd nor hurd are similar to linux (aside from being posix compliant), so I don't agree that glibc is linux-specific. I know that Nexenta wanted to be an official Debian port at one time, and that most of the opposition was a result of linking GPL code to the CDDL-licensed sun libc. Getting glibc ported to solaris would be the first-step in getting an official Debian port based on OpenSolaris. -- David [0] http://www.nongnu.org/glibc-bsd/ [1] http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
