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Re: AVR32 glibc port
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Bradley Smith <brad-smith at gnu dot org>
- Cc: libc-ports at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:50:08 -0500
- Subject: Re: AVR32 glibc port
- References: <20081125173911.543ed70c@pyrite.brad-smith.co.uk>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 05:39:11PM +0000, Bradley Smith wrote:
> I'm currently working towards an AVR32 port of glibc, but the toolchain in
> it's current state has no TLS support. So I opted to try and port 2.3.6,
> which I've got a fair way through and is mostly working now. Although is
> it at all feasible to get versions greater than this to build without TLS
> support? (Can the need for TLS be 'patched' out on a sysdep level?)
Pretty much no. Debian has some hacky patches in their glibc package
for this since m68k doesn't have TLS (yet! CodeSourcery and others
are working on that). That requires a LinuxThreads port, of course,
and I'm not sure what you need to get LinuxThreads building nowadays.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery