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W.F.Cody

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From: Ghent

Registered: 2010-11-18

Posts: 155

BSD libc for Linux?

Hi all

I am not trying to start a flamewar or something, but has anyone ported a full BSD libc to Linux? or, alternatively, is there an ongoing effort to do so? (i guess bionic might give a good reference material). There seems to be enough people out there with an anti-glibc sentiment [0].

I have found some efforts [1], but they are quite old and appart from bionic [2] from Android, which is a limited and minimalistic libc from NetBSD, I have not really found anything like it. The muscl libc [3] comparison [4] does however mention linux-ported BSD libc's.

The reason I am currently looking for one was that I have been trying to help out with building of a program for openBSD [5], but there seems to be some issues with libbsd [6].

[0] http://www.galexander.org/glibc.html
[1] http://www.skyfree.org/linux/BSDlibc/bsdlibc.html
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44629
[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46475
[4] http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
[5] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113980
[6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26667

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