AC_TRY_LINK
Dan Kegel
dank@kegel.com
Tue Jan 20 16:55:00 GMT 2004
Anton Blanchard wrote:
>>Those tests are necessary to ensure that you have everything you need for
>>libpthread to work right. If you need to get around them for bootstrapping
>>purposes, you can hand-prime a config.cache file to preempt the test. You
>>only have to do this in the very first glibc build. After that you should
>>be able to have enough installed for a vanilla configure and build to work
>>right.
>
>
> Assuming a non NPTL build will continue to work (either no threads or
> linuxthreads), we could make the first pass use it. Still, it would be
> nice to fix those 2 NPTL tests to not requiring linking.
I haven't seen the problem you're talking about when building
gcc/glibc cross-toolchains with http://kegel.com/crosstool
Does it only show up when building a ppc64 toolchain? If so,
I'll give that a whirl. Do I need glibc cvs for that?
- Dan
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