[OSUNIX-dev] Status update of fully open libc

["C. Bergström"]

Mark Martin wrote:
> C. Bergström wrote:
>>
>> Hi all..
>>
>> Jörg and I had a really interesting conversation last night and I 
>> wanted to publicly share my progress and hope Jörg and others can 
>> write down more details so we can start to make an actual plan.
>>
>> To start this is the list of symbols/functions that I know are left 
>> in 32bit libc that need reimplementing.. (need to noop them and see 
>> if there's anything behind, but....)
>>
>> _putwc                              pics/putwchar.o
>> _scrwidth                           pics/doprnt.o
>> wcstombs                            pics/strtows.o
>> strcoll                             pics/scandir.o
>> __iswlower                          
>> /onnv-gate/proto/root_i386/lib/libc_i18n.a(iswctype.o)
>> strftime                            pics/cftime.o
>> fnmatch                             pics/glob.o
>> __mbst_get_lc_and_fp                pics/doprnt_w.o
>> _set_orientation_wide               pics/__fputwc_xpg5.o
>>
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> Good work, thanks guys!
>>
>> I can make a reproducible way to get this far in my packaging system 
>> or something more generic if needed.. Roughly I did this..
>> clone onnv-gate..
>> Get the 2007 opensolaris gsoc project from John Sonnenschein
>> If you're using sun cc then you'll have to make some changes to the 
>> fbsd code
>> gatetome.patch will need some changes. (this should be obvious)
>> copy the resulting libc.a into the correct place
>> build lib/libc
>>
>> Once the project I'm working on boots and pulls network I'll release 
>> a livecd with as much of a development environment as will fit..
> Which architectures?  Is this a hint at another distro or is this 
> OpenSolaris(tm) 2009.1/64bit clean?
By the project I just meant my modular onnv-gate work.. pushing that 
into a livecd shouldn't be too hard and I think for the curious it would 
make things a lot easier..  (Yes I am working on 64bit clean, but that's 
another thread)

./C