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On Monday, August 29, 2011 23:09:07 Bryan Ischo wrote: > I tried crosstool-ng; it failed. I can't remember what the exact error was > but it was just another in a long string of problems that I experienced. I > have read documentation, believe me, lots of documentation. AND I HAVE A > WORKING PROCESS. And that process MAKES SENSE TO ME. The only point of > failure right now is for one specific host type, and that's x86_64, and > from what I have read, this is not an unusual point of failure (you > yourself said that gentoo maintains patches to make it build correctly in > your environment). you incorrectly mixed my statements. the Gentoo patches i referenced improve static libs to work in PIC/PIE setups ... they have nothing to do with bootstrapping a cross-compiler toolchain, nor linking static libs into a shared lib. > It is possible that what I am trying to do is invalid (use a static libc.a > when creating a dynamic libgcc_s.so), but nobody has said that explicitly > yet it is wrong and really makes no sense. you're bleeding glibc symbols (public and private) into a completely unrelated library. > I am happy to > worth through the issues and fix them and to submit whatever improvements > to the process that I have made either to documentation or to the code, or > both. then post patches to address the crosstool-ng failures > The reason that I said that building glibc shared libraries requires gcc's > libgcc_s.so is because the dependencies are right there in the Makefiles; > for example, in the top-level Makeconfig: because you're missing a patch to make this work. if you used crosstool-ng, then it would have taken care of this for you. -mike
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