eglibc cross-compiling

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday, September 30, 2011 22:36:30 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 9/30/2011 7:59 PM, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> > On 30.09.11 14:49, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >> If this is a learning exercise then by all means please playing around
> >> and we'll be more than happy to help.
> > 
> > Which remindes me: what is it the correct way?
> > Archlinux for instans use this:
> > linux-api-headers->glibc->binutils->gcc->binutils->glibc
> 
> I don't know why you build binutils twice you normally don't need to.
> 
> The full process is:
> 
> binutils
>  ->linux-api-headers
>   ->gcc (basic)
>    ->glibc (headers)
>     ->gcc (with proper headers)
>      ->glibc (full)
>       ->gcc (full)

that gcc (basic) is really unnecessary and trivial to skip, and the glibc 
(headers) can be skipped with some work (although it's not really useful 
anymore).

embedded.gentoo.org/handbook/?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap3
-mike