Re: GNOME vs GNU gcc & glibc

[Andy Kahn <kahn zk3 dec com>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:17:18PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote:
> 
>  After several attempts to install GNOME from source, and relative
>  failures, I end out with the following question:
> 
>  What is the need for GNOME to use glibc-2.1 and egcs?
> 
>  Would't it be a lot easier for everybody to use the old good
>  lib5 (plus linux-threads) and gcc-2.7.2.3?

i think libc5 + linux-threads is contradictory: libc5 isn't
thread-safe in the first place!

in theory, none of this stuff should be dependent on Linux, gcc/egcs,
nor glibc, because not all systems are Linux, and not all Unix systems
have these available.

regards,
--andy