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Re: Why does libiberty have to build before a C library?
- From: Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>
- To: eric at umginc dot net
- Cc: neroden at twcny dot rr dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:39:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: Why does libiberty have to build before a C library?
- References: <3EE5A6B4.27298.22DC6C94@localhost>
>The AVR cross toolset apparently is one of the easiest to build, I think,
>because of having it's own library. From what I've seen on the crossgcc list,
>targets that use glibc (and possibly newlib) seem to be more difficult to
>build. Any change that will make building cross toolsets *easier* would be
>incredibly welcome.
Neither glibc or newlib are the problme. The problem is that gcc
needs headers to build libgcc that newlib or glibc have to supply.
You can see how the chicken and egg problem starts since glibc needs a
compiler to configure to a point to install headers....
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