Linux without the GNU toolchain 5104
I'm a scientist - that I'm also an engineer as well as a mathematician, logician, and computer scientist doesn't mean that I'm not a scientist (OTOH, plenty of engineers really are not scientists, in that they don't have the capacity for abstraction that is required in order to ask penetrating questions).
To see that his question is not useful, ask yourself instead what is the minimal set of tools you need in your garage in order to be able to recreate that same set of tools in your garage from scratch.
Peter T. Breuer I do not know about strcmp(), but in the distant past, I rewrote strncpy() because I had to do many copys of...
"Useful" discussion of what "from scratch" means follows, as well as "useful" discussion of what a "set of tools" might mean, since clearly nothing is sufficient in order to recreate nothing.
A scientist can observe that it is uninteresting by showing that it is merely a particular instance of a large clbutt of such questions (f.e. the "garage question" that I posed above), and that choosing this particular instance requires some particular interest on the part of the questioner, or some lack of capacity to see the wider question, but does not behoove the more informed listeners to find it interesting.
What IS the interest in this question?
Peter
In theory, you don't need GNU at all; but clearly that is not practical. In practice, you aren't going to...
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