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A massive proportion of Linux devices are actually using Bionic or uClibc instead of the gnu libc. While superficially the reasoning may seem to be purely tech
by fidotron 13y ago
A massive proportion of Linux devices are actually using Bionic or uClibc instead of the gnu libc.
While superficially the reasoning may seem to be purely technical, freedom from Drepper is not an unacknowledged feature of these alternatives.
- tobiasu 13y agoglibc has a fork/flavour called eglibc because Ulrich consistently refused to integrate work that wasn't relevant to his big iron Red Hat server world. For example he's "famous" for refusing to patch ldd to work with any posix shell instead of bash: https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3266 https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3266 It was recently fixed, but only after more considerate guys took over maintainership...