Abusing sys-include

Shaun Jackman sjackman@gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 22:58:00 GMT 2006


On 3/17/06, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 17 March 2006 20:58, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > To provide the glibc headers that newlib requires to build
> > i386-linux-newlib,
>
>   Are you seriously saying that, in order to build the newlib C library, you
> need to link against the glibc C library?  I think there's possibly something
> a bit wrong there, innit?

newlib does not need to link against the glibc library, but it does
require headers files from glibc to build the i386-linux-newlib
target. And yes, it is a bit wrong, but that's the way it's done.

Cheers,
Shaun


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