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Re: How to build/test glibc with new gcc
- From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:31:20 -0300
- Subject: Re: How to build/test glibc with new gcc
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On 17-07-2015 16:23, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 07/17/2015 03:18 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>>> Is that a problem with your sysroot setup then?
>>
>> Not really, back when I used to use this patch the idea was to no use
>> sysroot.
>
> There is no real technical reason not to use a sysroot?
>
> The sysroot is merely a chroot with all the things in it
> that you need. If you fail to complete the sysroot setup
> (which mind you is hard sometimes), then you get references
> outside the sysroot.
Yes, I recalled I though it was simple to just build the compiler
with the patch applied than setup a chroot. But it might not be
the case if you have the sysroot automatized (which I did not).
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>
>