Why does libiberty have to build before a C library?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:03:12PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Well, I guess I need to figure out where that loop was and whether we
> > can break it some other way.  I'd really like libiberty to be built
> > after newlib.
> 
> Sigh, I can't seem to reproduce it now (with an old checkout).
> 
> > Why does Cygwin need target libiberty?
> 
> Where else is it going to get all those functions?

I guess the question is:
  does libiberty provide things missing from newlib on cygwin, or does
  newlib use libiberty during its build process?

I assume the former, and we can just require target libiberty to be
built but after newlib.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer