Glibc on ppc built on i386

Philip Blundell pb@nexus.co.uk
Thu Nov 26 05:50:00 GMT 1998


>1. have anyone done a cross compiled version of glibc and got it to work

Cross compiling in general is OK.  I don't know about PPC specifically but I 
cross compile for ARM systems all the time.

>4. I needed to set CC and BUILD_CC even if the documentation don't mention it
>anymore.

The documentation doesn't really cover cross compiling properly.  Feel free 
to send a patch to improve this.

>5. Well it dose not work :(   I attached a file with the output I get when
>trying to run a hello world program I made. I don't think I can run gdb as my
>CPU don't have a FPU and I am using lincppc on it at this point.

Try linking statically first of all and see if you can run a very simple 
program.  Shared libraries introduce another level of complexity and you 
probably don't want to worry about that at first.

p.





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