Re: linking correct libc

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

On Saturday 23 May 2009 17:40:41 ng@piments.com wrote:
> trying --sysroot was one of my desperate attempts to get some sense out 
> of this toolchain. I have now dumped the idea.

It is *not* needed to pass --sysroot to the compielrs build with
crosstool-NG.

> adding -nostdlib stops it finding the host libc but stops it finding any 
> libc:

That's exactly the purpose of -nostdlib: to not use standard libraries.

> So the two basic issues remain: why does it find /lib/libc.so.6 at all 
> and why can't it find (or use) the library that exists in the libdir 
> explicitly included with -L ??

What does the follwing command says:
/back/ts/ct-wkg//x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-gcc \

And what does that one says:
/back/ts/ct-wkg//x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-gcc \
-print-file-name=libc.so

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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