Re: website for GNU/FreeBSD port

[Nathan Hawkins]

I've just finished* patching native libc (5.0) with a compatible 
implementation of getpwent, getspent, and related functions. (Basically I 
expanded my libshadow slightly, and patched it directly into libc5.)
With that, I believe the only major remaining compatibility problem is 
solved. 

libc5 has getopt_long, nl_langinfo, and seems to have enough wide character 
support to fix the unicode problems. I already had utmpx, so adding 
compatible /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow support into libc should fix the only 
major issue with debian on native libc. 

  ---Nathan 

* Still some testing left to do. 

Robert Millan writes: 

hi! 

I made up a website for the Glibc-based GNU/FreeBSD porting effort,
summarizing the latest news about it: 

  http://people.debian.org/~rmh/gnu-freebsd/ 

the directory with base tarball, which used to be there, is now at: 

  http://people.debian.org/~rmh/gnu-freebsd/pub/ 

and for the APT archive, see: 

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2003/debian-bsd-200306/msg00004.html 

--
Robert Millan 

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