GCC-3.0.1 can't compile Glibc-2.2.4

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:58:00PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:04:02 -0700
> > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> 
> > libc.so may be compiled on a different machine with gcc 3 and the
> > target machine may not have gcc 3.0 installed.
> 
> I think this makes about as much sense as compiling an application
> with glibc 2.2 for a target machine that might not have glibc 2.2
> installed.

What makes you think that? On the target machine, the only binary
compiled with gcc 3 may be just libc.so. Requiring installing the
gcc used to compile libc.so to install libc.so is a new thing to
glibc.


H.J.