Why does libiberty have to build before a C library?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:11:16PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I guess the question is:
> >   does libiberty provide things missing from newlib on cygwin, or does
> >   newlib use libiberty during its build process?
> 
> winsup pulls in libiberty to pick up the extra functions.

>From the build libiberty rather than from the libiberty source
directory, I assume?

And we can't link programs until winsup is built, I guess?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer