From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 29 11:28:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F501554A for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:28:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA27380 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 20:28:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id UAA40380 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 20:28:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD3B155E5; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA49714; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:28:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA89401; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:29:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199910291829.MAA89401@harmony.village.org> To: chris@calldei.com Subject: Re: stpcpy() Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:22:57 CDT." <19991029132257.A535@holly.calldei.com> References: <19991029132257.A535@holly.calldei.com> <19991029111352.A87934@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:29:38 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19991029132257.A535@holly.calldei.com> Chris Costello writes: : I'm seeing more and more of a need for a compat library for : Linux and GNU software in general. Adding unnecessary bloat to : our libc isn't necessary, in my opinion. The problem with this is that it becomes harder to build on FreeBSD because you have to add additional, non-standard libraries to the build process. This is the fault of the author of the tool, since they used non-standard interfaces, so maybe it wouldn't be too bad. The risk we run in not supporting them in libc is the perception that FreeBSD isn't compatible (never mind what the sstandards say). We have similar issues with the long getopt stuff. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message