BBAGGER wrote:
> - what is the difference between libc and glibc?
glibc2 does enforce standards compliance much more, you could
get away with sluggish coding with libc5, glibc2 complains.
> - what is the story behind glibc/libc?
Standards compliance, speed, infrastructure now in place
(in glibc) to mostly avoid incompatible changes in the future
(symbol versioning), less reliance on kernel headers.
> - is there another C compiler (than GCC) that uses (requires?) glibc?
Erm? What does the compiler have to do with the C library?
> - any ponters as to how to get such a compiler/library for development
> work?
www.gnu.org should have links. Note however that installing and/or
upgrading the C library is not so simple.
Its probably easier to have your glibc user post you the
error messages, it's usually a matter of adding some includes,
and changing some types (eg. s/struct fd_set/fd_set/) as per
man page(s).
Tom
