Installing glibc

[James Inge <j dot r dot inge at durham dot ac dot uk>]

I am trying to get working a cross-toolchain to compile programs on an
i586-linux box, to run under arm-linux.  Can anyone give me a few
pointers on how to get glibc 2.2.1 installed.  Here is the current
situation:

I have configured everything in the toolchain with
--prefix=/usr/local/arm-linux which is the path on the PC where I want
the cross utils installed.  Doing a "make install" for glibc installs
all the libraries under that tree, and gcc picks them up fine.

The problem comes when I try to run the generated programs on the
target, ARM box.  It currently has glibc 2.2.1 installed in /lib. 
Wherever I try and put the new libraries, either 
   a) Precompiled programs can't find their 2.1.2 libraries (causing the
system to die)
   b) New programs can't find the 2.2.1 libraries.
or c) New programs can find the new libraries, but the library then
looks for other libraries (eg ld-linux.so.2) in the path from the PC,
not the ARM filesystem.

The things I really need to know are:
   a) How to add 2.2.1 to the ARM box without crippling glibc 2.1.2
programs.
   b) How to cross compile programs on the PC that will find the
libraries on the ARM.

Points to note are:
   a) There are no native compilers, etc. on the ARM box.
   b) glibc 2.1.2 won't compile on the PC (hence I'm using 2.2.1)
   c) I can mount the ARM filesystem on the PC.

Any advice would be greatky appreciated.  Thamks,
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	James Inge

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