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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!netnews.com!entertainment-tonight.ai.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Date: 27 May 1997 00:12:17 -0400 Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 21 Message-ID: <sejoh9x4kpq.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <337A4307.3BF9@vertexcomm.com> <87k9l1twjc.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> <5lnct0$47$2@klemm.gtn.com> <87lo5bmued.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> <5mdbgo$kkj$5@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41653 David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> writes: >> converting to ELF, and now we're due for libc6 == glibc2 which is > I'm curious. I've seen a few references to libc6 and glibc2. Just what > is this? I thought Linux used glibc all along. In short: The Linux group changed glibc to their needs, incompatibly with other architectures and with GNU coding standards. The version numbers split. They have recently merged with the advent of glibc v2. Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped