Which Linux distributions are the developers of glibc using?
nick
xerofoify@gmail.com
Sat May 30 21:11:00 GMT 2015
On 2015-05-30 05:09 PM, james harvey wrote:
> I started with Redhat and moved to Fedora when it came out, and have
> stuck with it.
>
> Trying to upgrade my glibc to the git master has, for the first time,
> exposed me to distribution-specific patches.
>
> There can be quite a few conflicts trying to merge in the Fedora
> patches for their latest release of a package, and that project's
> current source tree.
>
> I could be wrong, of course, but I assume the glibc developers are
> using a distribution that allows them to just install the glibc
> source, without distribution-specific patches on top to complicate
> their development. Which ones are these? I figure Linux From Scratch
> would qualify for what I'm looking for, but want to know my options.
>
Arch Linux/Gentoo do this do otherwise there are few distributions that do
this.
Nick
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