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On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Greg Schafer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:49:05AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i was just perusing the cross-LFS docs and noticed that *their* > > recipe for building a toolchain didn't involve the installation of > > glibc headers between the binutils and bootstrap gcc steps. > > The cross-LFS docs are incorrect. The writers have been informed of > their mistake yet they continue to fly in the face of common > cross-toolchain wisdom. Please read this post for some of the > technical details: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2005-July/052409.html > > And please read the reply to another post of mine on the GCC list by > Jim Wilson (a toolchain expert): > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-07/msg01206.html > > In summary, it *is* possible to build cross-toolchains on some > arch's without the Glibc headers step... but it results in > unsatisfactory code related to exception handling, stack unwinding > and thread cancallation. I'm no expert but I have done loads of > research and testing. Nevertheless, I am smart enough to listen to > the GCC gurus... trust me.. I've done the hard yards with Google on > this topic and the evidence confirms that building Glibc based > cross-toolchains without the Glibc headers step is just plain wrong. thanks, that is a supremely valuable bit of info. rday ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sources.redhat.com
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