Re: arrgh. can't install headers in glibc-2.3.2.

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Peter Barada wrote:
> If I understand this correctly we need glibc headers to build a 
> bootstrap compiler since the headers are required for libgcc1/2, exception
> handling(stack unwind, etc), but those libraries are *not* necessary to build
> glibc (or at least glibc-2.2.5).
>
> Suppose we hack gcc to suppress the construction of ligbcc, etc if its
> configured to build a bootstrap (or we make a different Makefile
> target, or we hack the Makefile directly).
>
> Then we could build a bare-bones bootstrap that *should* be able to
> build glibc, and then go back and build up a full compiler.
>
> If I comment out the two sets of lines in the generated gcc/Makefile
> that define LIBGCC and INSTALL_LIBGCC (arond lines 383 and 688) then
> libgcc is *not* build and the bootstrap installs correctly...
>
> Do you think this approach might work?

Dunno.  Thanks for explaining it, though.  It's tempting to try.
- Dan

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