Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit: The future of The GNU C Library.

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, david.hagood@gmail.com wrote:

> As an embedded systems developer, one thing I could ask would be to make
> cross-compiling a bit easier - as it stands, to build a cross toolchain, I
> have to:

See Roland's discussion of the bootstrap procedure at 
<http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg00960.html>.  I do intend 
to look at the question of why libgcc_s.so is needed to build glibc and 
whether the dependency of building glibc on any part of libgcc that needs 
system headers can be removed, but probably not until late April.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com