NPTL and building gcc-core -- the next step

[Dan Kegel]

On 2/23/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >   in looking at that contributed NPTL patch
> > > "crosstool-0.38-nptl-schaefer.patch", i'm not scared to admit that i
> > > have no idea what's happening in terms of the patch applied to
> > > crosstool.sh to build gcc-core for NPTL.
> >
> > Then I'm afraid you're not going to have much luck coming up with a
> > simpler way of building an nptl toolchain.
>
> so all of that patching is essential for NPTL during the bootstrap-gcc
> step?  that's scary.

'Swhy I haven't tackled it yet.  Mostly it's just a matter of needing
another cycle of bootstrapping; you can't compile glibc-NPTL with
the same simple compiler used to build glibc-linuxthreads.
- Dan

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