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On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:56:33PM -0700, Brian D. Carlstrom wrote:

> However, I'm guessing this addon is not something found in common
> distributions for PowerPC like Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, ...

There's always lead time to get things into distros, that would still be
true if you modified glibc instead as well.


-Olof