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Re: Cross-compiling gcc? (sysroot confusion)

From: Pierre Ossman <ossman at cendio dot se>
To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org, Christer Solskogen <christer dot solskogen at gmail dot com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 11:37:55 +0100
Subject: Re: Cross-compiling gcc? (sysroot confusion)
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> Why are you using so old glibc?

This is a build system for building very portable binaries. As such we
need a glibc that's as old as the oldest system we need to support.

And yes, I've had lots of fun back-porting fixes that newer versions of
make and gcc expose. :)

Rgds
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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