Packaging native newlib

[Shaun Jackman]

newlib currently doesn't build anything on amd64, where config.guess
returns x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. If configure et al. were coaxed to
build a native libarary, would the resulting binaries be correct?

Thanks,
Shaun

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:18:27 -0500, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> wrote:
> Platforms have the ability to override headers with machine-specific versions.
> Ther are also shared headers in the libc/include directory.  Obviously,
> machine-specific headers are not portable.  You say native newlib.  Well, newlib
> is only native in a few rare cases.  Cygwin for example, and linux as anothe
> example.  Linux currently is only supported for x86.  If it was supported for
> another platform, say, arm-linux, then there would be machine-specific versions
> of some of the headers in libc/sys/linux/machine/xxxx.  Look at the
> install-data-local target in Makefile.am.
> 
> -- Jeff J.