Re: [MiNT] glibc for m68k/mint?

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

Glibc depends heavily upon the linux kernel as far as I know.  Without
modern kernel interfaces, no modern libc.  We need virtual memory.  I
thought you were working on that :-P

Thanks,
Mark


On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 03:06 +0200, MiKRO wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I apologize for maybe such stupid question but I haven't been by mintlib's 
> born from the beginning... what was the reason to not use/port glibc from 
> linux/unix world? From my point of view it seems a large parts were written 
> from scratch by former mint/mintlib maintainers and I see no reason for 
> this...
> 
> I ask because "our" libc development seems to be a little inactive and maybe 
> it would be a good idea to think about something like porting glibc to mint 
> and to be compatible with the rest of the world... (ok now it's that 
> compatibility also high but you know what I want to say :)
> 
>