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[Steve Ellcey]

> I looked at it briefly a while ago and ran into a number of problems due 
> to the fact that newlib required some macros that were taken away plus 
> there were a number of other backward compatibility issues.  At the time 
> I didn't see any compelling reason to make the switch.
> 
> I have just started relooking at it today.  I have gotten through a 
> number of issues so far.  I still have to remove the annoying warnings 
> about AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS using a literal in the machine/OS-specific 
> directories.  We configure the name of the machine directory and sys 
> directory once at the top-level.  This name corresponds to 
> subdirectories of lower directories which we conditionally configure 
> using the names specified above.  It used to be nice and simple.
> 
> -- Jeff J.

Let me know if I can help in any way though I am afraid I am not very
familiar with newlib or libgloss as I don't normally use them on my
platforms (ia64 hpux, pa hpux, and ia64 linux).

Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com