None of the replies answers the question, which I'll repeat; is there a
reason why MeeGo uses one and not the other?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Simon McVittie <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 at 15:27:02 +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> > Is there a reason that MeeGo uses the Red Hat version of glibc[0] versus
> the
> > GNU version of glibc[1]?
> >
> > It seems eglibc is more appropriate for embedded systems.
> >
> > 0. http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/
> > 1. http://www.eglibc.org/home
>
> You seem to be slightly confused about the status of glibc vs. eglibc,
> hopefully this clarifies things:
>
> glibc [0] is GNU libc, primarily maintained by Ulrich Drepper at Red Hat.
>
> eglibc [1] is a (semi-)fork of glibc maintained by a group coordinated by
> CodeSourcery, which is more willing to accept patches, particularly those
> that support what Mr. Drepper calls "embedded crap". Debian >= 6.0 uses
> eglibc as its libc implementation (http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=47).
>
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