Re: [CT_NG] build fixes for glibc-2.3.6 and old systems

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt at metux dot de>]

* Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:

> Building linuxthreads-based glibc is broken, as you just pointed out. Only
> NPTL works (or should work) with glibc. It's a crosstool-NG limitation so
> far.

Ugh, can we fix it somehow ?
I'm maintaining a bunch of old (even 2.4 kernel) system and like to use
a crosscompiler for this.

> But in the case of linuxthreads, that X-compiler is not built. So we can't use
> it to build necessary C library. Where it becomes quite strange (IMPOV) is that
> linuxthreads *should* *not* require that compiler. Anyway, it didn't when
> crosstool-NG didn't support building NPTL. Since the time I introduced NPTL
> support, the linuxthreads builds broke.

hmm, do you have an idea where this break comes from ?


cu
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