FreeBSD <sys/types.h>

Robert Millan rmh@debian.org
Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:30:27 +0100


On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:55:57PM +0100, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> > Good point.  Do you think having Glibc in ports would help?  I don't know much
> > FreeBSD (as a project) but I recall seeing programs in ports motivating changes
> > in src in order to be supported.
> 
> Glibc in ports is a nice idea. I already suggested GNU/kFreeBSD bootstrapped
> by a port.
> 
> > Even if we can't merge our patches with upstream, maintaining them is an itch
> > we could live with.  But if we can find a solution that upstream likes, that'd
> > be much better! ;)
> 
> Bring glibc somehow in the place and wait for porters wanting to use it.

Great.  I don't know how to write FreeBSD ports though.  Anyone with an idea
(Nicolas? ;) wants to try a Glibc port?

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