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Re: Upstreaming the glibc Hurd port
Hello,
On 01/19/18 12:10, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Beware that this script is from many years ago -- from times before my
> dear CodeSourcery colleagues taught be how to ;-) properly build
> cross-compilers. But yes, cross-gnu did work back then.
>
> Another thing to look into nowadays is David's (CCed) gnuxc,
> <http://mid.mail-archive.com/87r3vaw4os.fsf@gmail.com> "Scripts to build
> a Hurd distro", <https://github.com/dm0-/gnuxc> "GNU OS Cross-Compiler".
> (I have not yet looked into that one myself.)
>
> And, the Guix/Hurd effort also is capable of cross-compilation, as far as
> I remember. But probably cross-gnu/gnuxc will already give you enough
> pointers of what needs to be done.
>
Guix should be able to cross-build the hurdish glibc with custom source
with `guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu glibc-hurd --with-source=glibc.tar.gz`
Manolis