Jim Gifford wrote:
> I think we all have come to realization that LLH headers are not coming
> out. So I've been checking into how to make these headers. So I'm asking
> everyone's opinion on this before I pursue this task.
[...]
> Do we really want to pursue our own creating of sanitized headers?
I don't think that this makes much sense. One of the problems I see in
this area is that everybody and his dog is starting his own little ABI
headers project. There's about a dozen out there which apparently all
have died of lack of manpower.
It would be better to try to get all interested parties together.
There is
- H. Peter Anvins LinuxABI project (dead) at
<http://zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxabi>,
- Marius Mazurs Linux-Libc-Headers project (slow),
- Linux-Libc-Kernel-Headers project (unknown, probably dead) at
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/libc-headers>,
- recently Kyle Moffett offered to do some work in this area on LKML
but the response was rather indifferent, so I doubt much will
come out of it,
- Klibc includes their own copies of sanitized headers,
- µClibc includes their own copies of sanitized headers and
- many major distributions include their own copies of sanitized
headers.
That's probably several dozen people either willing or being forced to
work on sanitized headers---if only they were working on *one*
project ...
jwm
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