From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:50:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from [IPv6:::ffff:202.9.170.7] ([IPv6:::ffff:202.9.170.7]:11684 "EHLO trishul.procsys.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:50:09 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.36] ([192.168.1.36]) by trishul.procsys.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i956kDGG010543 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:16:16 +0530 Message-ID: <416242DE.5010806@procsys.com> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:14:46 +0530 From: "T. P. Saravanan" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: libc, libc-devel in CVS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ProcSys-Com-Anti-Virus-Mail-Filter-Virus-Found: no Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5939 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: sara@procsys.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hi, In the CVS (http://www.linux-mips.org/cvsweb/) I find two directories - libc and libc-devel. Can somebody roughly describe - why are there two, and what is the difference? If I need a stable (and reasonably recent) libc which one should I use? (Or should I use the glibc kept in ftp.gnu.org?) -Saravanan