Re: are glibc hacks in crosstool still necesary?

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Dara Hazeghi wrote:
> I just finished building a cross-compiler (C only) for
> arm-linux using crosstools and glibc from cvs. I
> didn't make any glibc modifications, but gcc build
> fine. Does this mean that the modifications for
> errlist.c, errlist-compat.c, features.h and stub.h are
> not necessary any more?

That would be wonderful.  I have't built glibc from cvs
yet so I don't know.  I expect
many of the patches are still required, but only
for things you haven't tried yet, e.g. running the
regression tests or building for other architectures.
I've tried hard to put a few lines at the top of each
patch explaining what problem it fixes, and for those
patches, you should be able to check to see if it's
a problem you would have run into.

Generally, when bringing up a new version of gcc or glibc,
I start out without any patches, and bring in just the ones
I need as I run into the problems.  So the pile of patches
I end up with depends on which architectures I built and
tested on...
- Dan

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