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Re: documentation for cross compiling.
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:03:10PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:57:55PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think it is necessary. Bootstrap glibc/gcc for the very first
> > > time is always a special case. I don't think you can automate it.
> >
> > But I disagree. Not only that, I disagree in code - I have automated
> > it, for MIPS, PowerPC, i386, ARM, and SH. It prevents vicious cycles
>
> When I said "the very first time", I meant "the very first time". That
> is you are doing the first port to a new target. There is nothing
> specific for the new target ever existed. You have to fill all the
> blanks. How can you automate that?
Sure. I misread that.
But I'd like to keep it possible to build gcc without any target glibc
headers at all, without having to fiddle the gcc configuration, so that
this sort of clean build continues to be possible.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer