Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:20:34 -0500
On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:14:22PM +1100, CaT wrote:
> Harald Koenig wrote the following:
> >
> > On Mar 17, Steve Dodd wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:15:07AM +0100, Harald Koenig wrote:
> > >
> > > > pardon me, but is 2.1 released at all ?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> >
> > I checked prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/glibc/ and there I only can find
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 86 Feb 11 16:25 glibc-2.1-README
> >
> > saying
> >
> > glibc-2.1 has been (temporarily) removed, until some
> > political issues are worked out.
> >
> >
> > so, when will glibc 2.1 really be available and which "political issues"
> > have to be worked out (for more than a month now) ?
>
> Yeah. I'm kinda suprised about that not being resolved yet. Basically
> you had to have been lucky. Either you got it before it was withdrawn,
> you managed to find it in some dark corner of the net or you managed
> to get it off a friend who got it. Other then that you're SOL.
>
> I've managed to get ahold of it. the 112->2.1 patch, 2.1 crypt lib and
> 2.1 linuxthreads.
>
> None of this, ofcourse, helps to answer your question but I felt like
> 'bragging' ;)
try ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/glibc/ instead.
-- arvind
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