On Jun 4 18:18, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> >> Sometimes I wonder what the purpose of newlib is. If it is
> >> to become a full glibc replacement, the why not just use
> >> glibc? Is it a licensing thing?
> >>
> >
> >Yes.
>
> What is the licensing thing? Would it also apply to my extracting ch
>> Sometimes I wonder what the purpose of newlib is. If it is
>> to become a full glibc replacement, the why not just use
>> glibc? Is it a licensing thing?
>>
>
>Yes.
What is the licensing thing? Would it also apply to my extracting chunks
of glibc and contributing them to newlib?
--
Brya
>> sdesc: "catgets message catalog API; gencat"
>
>Is the package name also "catgets"? Though in this particular case,
>"catgets: catgets message catalog API; gencat" doesn't look too weird.
It is. The repetiveness sounds a little awkward, but is entirely
logical, because the second "catgets" is
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:06:03PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>I always *thought* newlib was supposed to be a lean-n-mean, highly
>portable, suitable-for-embedded/limited systems runtime library...but
>maybe I was wrong.
Nope, that is what is was originally developed to be. That doesn't mean
[snip]
> > OTOH, since Linux has it as part of the standard C library, why not
> > simply submit a patch to newlib that implements those
> functions? Use
> > the newlib list for this: .
>
> Geez.
>
> Sometimes I wonder what the purpose of newlib is. If it is
> to become a full glibc replace
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
I would call this package "libcatgets". Were you inclined to do it
"right", you'd probably want to split this into "libcatgets" that contains
just the runtime DLL, and "libcatgets-devel" that contains the necessary
headers, the static libs (if any), and the gencat utili
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> I have a designed-for-Linux program that doesn't run on Cygwin because
> it wants to use the X/Open Catgets message catalog functions from the
> GNU C library. Searching the Cygwin mailing list, I see others have
> had the same problem.
>
> So I extrac
I have a designed-for-Linux program that doesn't run on Cygwin because
it wants to use the X/Open Catgets message catalog functions from the
GNU C library. Searching the Cygwin mailing list, I see others have
had the same problem.
So I extracted the Catgets function (along with a bunch of utiliti
