Re: threads and NPTL, step by step

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:13:19PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 	${BINUTILS_SRC_DIR}/configure \
> > 		--host=${HOST} \
> > 		--target=${TARGET} \
> > 		--prefix=${PREFIX} \
> > 		--with-sysroot=${SYSROOT_DIR} \
> > 		--disable-nls
> >
> >   note that there's *nothing* in those steps that needs to be aware
> > that we're building with NPTL, right?
>
> correct ... binutils TLS support depends completely on the target itself and
> whether it has knowledge of all the funky TLS relocations/etc...
>
> for the record, Gentoo configures all all binutils targets with (stripping the
> host/build/prefix/libdir/etc... flags):
> --enable-64-bit-bfd --enable-shared --disable-werror

ok, but none of the above are critical, so i can just ignore them for
the moment.

> >   however, what about installing the glibc headers?  this is what i
> > have so far, is it correct?  have i misconfigured it for what i'm
> > after?
>
> i cant comment on this because we skip the glibc headers step in Gentoo and
> build the bootstrap compiler with --without-headers so it seems like it
> shouldnt matter since i'm able to compile the thread test with a bootstrap
> sparc compiler (which means the only thing ive done was build sparc binutils
> and sparc gcc)
> -mike

i've heard from more than one source that installing the glibc headers
is *required* for some architectures, but not for others.

so, if i'm installing them, is it possible to have chosen the options
badly to break things down the line?

rday

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