On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:34:37PM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:14:17 +0100, Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> wrote: > > So... if you link glibc with files compiled by a NON-GNU compiler, the > > resulting binary *has to be* glibc [I meant GPL] ? That's, well, fucked, > > if you pardon my french. But it's not my code, so all I can do is sigh > > <wink wink, Moshe > ;-P > Thomas, glibc is not currently supported on any non-GNU systems (and for the > sake of this discussion, NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD are GNU systems too, since > the only compiler that works there is gcc) > More, glibc uses so many gcc extensions that you probably will have a hard > time getting it to compile with any other compiler. That depends. Is a fork of gcc, sprouting all the features of gcc, a GNU compiler ? We're not talking technicalities here, we're talking legalities. "What's in a name" is no longer a rhetorical question in that context :) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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