crosstool: problem building ppc64 toolchain w/ ppc64 kernel, ppc32 userspace

[Dan Kegel]

Roland Dreier wrote:
> By the way, I am having this problem with crosstool-0.28-rc32.  (I
> forgot to include that critical bit of info in my first email)
> 
> I just read the crossgcc archives a little more carefully, and I saw
> that building an x86-64 toolchain on i386 userspace running on a
> 64-bit x86_64 kernel has exactly the same problem.  Unfortunately
> glibc-2.3.2-cross-2.patch doesn't seem to be all that's required in my
> ppc32 userspace on ppc64 kernel setup (I just checked, and the patch
> definitely applied to glibc in my build tree).
> 
> As a ludicrous workaround for the moment, I put the following in
> /usr/local/bin/uname:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     /bin/uname $@ | sed -e's/ppc64/ppc/'
> 
> and glibc successfully configures.

That workaround could be done without being root, by playing with PATH.
It could even be done inside a demo-* shell script for this situation.
I guess I should add something like this to the crosstool-howto...

- Dan

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