libc port for AIX

Mark Brown bmark@us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 28 13:56:00 GMT 2005


<kamalrp@networkprograms.com> wrote:
> Im interested in getting hold of a glibc port on AIX.
> Can someone tell me if this has been done/can ne done?

I do not believe that there is a glibc port to AIX available.
AIX has an "unusual" set of shared library and linker-loader mechanisms,
making such a port difficult to do and maintain.

IBM has ported many GNU/FSF and other open source tools to AIX,
available from here: 
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/

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Mark Brown
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