how to get a prebuilt glibc

[Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin]

dank@kegel.com wrote:
> "Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin" wrote:
> 
>>As Kai recommended in many messages in this list, a prebuilt glibc is
>>necessary to build a bootstrap gcc before building a complete cross
>>compiler. My target is powerpc-linux. Actually prebuilt glibc can be
>>obtained from various sources, such as SuSE, YellowDog. But the problem
>>is that these binary RPMs cannot be relocated. And I only have
>>i686/RedHat hosts.
> 
> I recommend building your own glibc.  
> 
> (Kai thinks that's a waste of effort, since you can just grab a prebuilt one.
> Since that's what you're doing, I'll let him answer your question :-)
Well, to my understanding, what Kai suggested is to use prebuilt glibc 
to build
only the bootstrap gcc. Once you get a correct bootstrap gcc, you can do 
whatever
want to do, for example, building new glibc and a complete gcc. Am I right?

- Shawn.


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