From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 07 Oct 2004 05:25:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from [IPv6:::ffff:202.9.170.7] ([IPv6:::ffff:202.9.170.7]:35027 "EHLO trishul.procsys.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 05:25:21 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.36] ([192.168.1.36]) by trishul.procsys.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i974LBGG025372 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:51:11 +0530 Message-ID: <4164C3E7.5070609@procsys.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:49:51 +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: Re: libc, libc-devel in CVS References: <416242DE.5010806@procsys.com> In-Reply-To: <416242DE.5010806@procsys.com> 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: 5970 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 T. P. Saravanan wrote: > > 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 > > Please correct me if I am wrong. (This is just for the record and for the benefit of the late comers.) When people say glibc CVS they mean the one at http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/ and http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/?cvsroot=glibc. [Not the one at http://www.linux-mips.org/cvsweb/]. -Sa.