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> As far as I know glibc is strictly for Linux. glibc is one of the few exceptions to the rule, and even that supports Hurd and has historically had patchsets
by mid-kid 4y ago
> As far as I know glibc is strictly for Linux.
glibc is one of the few exceptions to the rule, and even that supports Hurd and has historically had patchsets to run on the BSDs.
> Large chunks of gnu software requires GCC.
This is simply not true. Autoconf, the build generation utility, is so insanely complex and archaic because it had to support wildly different compilers and Unix environments. These days it's just GCC and Clang, both of which are very well supported beyond just the GNU ecosystem, to the point Gentoo now has a clang-only variant.