Re: Crosstool's sanitized headers

["Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel dot com>]

On 2/19/06, Trevor Harmon <trevor@vocaro.com> wrote:
> > On 2/19/06, Trevor Harmon <trevor@vocaro.com> wrote:
> >> Crosstool supports "sanitized Linux headers". What exactly is a
> >> "sanitized" header?
> >
> > It's a kernel header cleansed of any details not needed by glibc.
> > There have been many such sanitized header packages; the one
> > I use is at http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/
> > and seems to be popular.
>
> Okay, so in other words sanitized headers are used only for
> bootstrapping glibc?  I assume I can delete them once glibc has been
> successfully compiled?

I think so.  Or you could leave them there.  I do.  Perhaps it'll
bite me someday, but it hasn't yet.

> >> Also, in crosstool-0.38, many (all?) of the .dat files specify both
> >> LINUX_SANITIZED_HEADER_DIR and LINUX_DIR. ...
>
> But normally one would use identical versions, right? Isn't it
> possible that if I specify different numbers, then the LINUX_DIR
> tests could fail simply because the version is too old/new?

Nope.  Being able to cross-compile a kernel doesn't depend on
the interface to the kernel on the target system.   Cross-compiling
a kernel doesn't need the target's libc at all, in fact.  (Unless you
count klibc!)
- Dan

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