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From: Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>
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Hi,

On Monday 02 March 2009, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > Sounds like MiNTLib should become a patch to glibc - then tracking the
> > changes by GNU would be easier, perhaps :)
>
> Yes, that is the definitive solution.
> But the glibc is huge, I heard it can be difficult to port it to
> something other than Linux. The situation may be better now.
>
> However, there are alternatives to glibc, for example Newlib, uclibc,
> dietlibc...

Any idea which one of these is most used (tested, maintained etc)
on other m68k platforms?

After some googling, at least both Newlib and uClibc would seem to already
work on m68k...


	- Eero