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Re: [PATCH] missing #ifndef inhibit_libc in gcc/config/rs6000/linux.h
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:34:43PM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > The trick that you may be missing, Dan, is that you need to have a
> > _sufficiently recent_ compiler on the host; or else you need to patch
> > glibc's configure script. You can't do it without any compiler because
> > of some stupid autoconf CPP sanity check, and because it explicitly
> > checks the versions, but a native gcc 3.3.1 works perfectly fine.
> >
> > I think you also need a recent compiler because of one of the -M
> > options used in generating stdio_lim.h.dT.
>
> OTOH, providing for builds with inhibit_libc removes this
> restriction on the host compiler version.
See Franz's comment for the risks, though. Fix glibc's install-headers
not to use a compiler, instead.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer