[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17136 - viric - in nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs: stdenv/linux tools/compression/bzip2 tools/networking/curl

[Ludovic Courtès]

Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:

> dietlibc is poorly maintained, at least for arm. It doesn't work
> easily for network-programs. It has some posix functions set to use
> very old syscalls, now obsolete in arm eabi kernels. And there aren't
> already-written alternatives there which use the new. At the end the
> dietlibc didn't have that posix calls, which needed the old syscalls.
> I didn't want to fix dietlibc, and I preferred not to rely on it.

That’s a very good reason then.  :-)

I was concerned whether there might be a rationale for using Diet Libc
in the first place, which we could be overlooking here.

Thanks,
Ludo’.