Re: [dev] [OT] glibc

2010-06-11 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:09:13PM +0200, pancake wrote: We should move this thread to Twitter. I'd sooner throw away my computer than sign up for a Twitter account. -- Kris Maglione About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try

Re: [dev] [OT] glibc

2010-06-11 Thread pancake
On 06/11/10 14:05, Kris Maglione wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:51:43PM +0200, pancake wrote: I would love to have such lib usable for more than one kernel (w32, bsd, osx, linux..) this is theorically the big benefit of glibc.. but it is certainly something i would love to have.. NetBSD

Re: [dev] [OT] glibc

2010-06-11 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:51:43PM +0200, pancake wrote: I would love to have such lib usable for more than one kernel (w32, bsd, osx, linux..) this is theorically the big benefit of glibc.. but it is certainly something i would love to have.. NetBSD have a good Libc implementation, but it i

Re: [dev] [OT] glibc (was: [9base] rc can't find .)

2010-06-11 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > Do we have feature-complete alternatives to GNU libc? > eglibc is not an option, since it's based solely on the point that Drepper is > an asshole. > From what I heard, uClibc is incomplete, as is klibc and dietlibc.. > What else do we have

Re: [dev] [OT] glibc

2010-06-11 Thread pancake
I would love to have such lib usable for more than one kernel (w32, bsd, osx, linux..) this is theorically the big benefit of glibc.. but it is certainly something i would love to have.. NetBSD have a good Libc implementation, but it is not suckless.. I would certainly like to see something li

Re: [dev] [OT] glibc (was: [9base] rc can't find .)

2010-06-11 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:02:02PM +0200, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: Do we have feature-complete alternatives to GNU libc? eglibc is not an option, since it's based solely on the point that Drepper is an asshole. Drepper is an asshole. That's as good a reason as any. From what I heard, uClibc is

Re: [dev] [OT] glibc (was: [9base] rc can't find .)

2010-06-11 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Do we have feature-complete alternatives to GNU libc? eglibc is not an option, since it's based solely on the point that Drepper is an asshole. >From what I heard, uClibc is incomplete, as is klibc and dietlibc.. What else do we have? Android libc? How many programs depend on glibc?