On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:58:48PM +1100, Collin Baillie wrote:

 > I have a question for you all. I'm running NetBSD 1.5 on a DEC 3000/400 and
 > I want to toy with Interbase on it. But it seems that NetBSD (alpha port at
 > least) doesn't have glibc or gcc.

GCC is /usr/bin/cc (an older version, but GCC nonetheless).  NetBSD
does not use glibc.

 > My boss has been playing with it trying to get it going and he's sure that
 > with a patch gcc will run, which just leaves glibc which I think is
 > necessary to compile it.
 > 
 > What are my chances?

I'm skeptical that glibc is actually required -- what glibc-specific
features does Interbase claim to require?

If you switch to NetBSD-current, you'll have a newer compiler (gcc 2.95.3).

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>