Subj : a desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Aug 05 2017 03:43:38

Hey Nancy!

 NB> Yeah... such a bummer...

I am suspicous that is the real reason for the raspberry pi 3 purchase, 
especially the current strategy of enabling a custom built OS for it.  Speaking 
of which it is currently chewing on building networking packages as we speak.  
Here is a cut n' paste from the main C library which is as current as current 
can get since this version is only a couple days old;

----- ye olde cut n' paste starts
root@armando:/mnt/archives/medevil/scripts# /lib/libc.so.6
GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.26, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 7.1.1 20170802.
Available extensions:
        crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
        GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
        Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
        BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libc ABIs: UNIQUE
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.
----- ye olde cut n' paste ends

Note the "GNU CC version 7.1.1 20170802" which is a release candidate for 
gcc-7.2 which should be loose and full of juice by sometime next week.  I am 
hoping by then the raspi3 will be using the above on it's root file system and 
that it will be sending it's own fidonet messages from there.  So far it is 
looking great despite the many snags encoutered along the way.  I persisted.

 NB> That sounds a bit ambitious... but hopefully it works all as hoped
 NB> for... :)

The above cut n' paste demonstrates that there is much reality in the latest 
ambition.

I do good work.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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