Re: is that "install glibc headers" step in crosstool necessary?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Bill Gatliff wrote:

> Robert:
>
>
> >  the comments in crosstool.sh for that step seem to imply that it's
> > not really clear if that step is required, so i did a quick test.  i
> > configured my mini-ct script to build for powerpc and commented out
> > the entire glibc headers step.
> >
>
> You have to exhaustively test across all gcc versions and targets.
> It was necessary for some ppc versions (at least) at one point.  If
> it isn't now, then things are much-improved.
>
> The fact that it doesn't seem necessary anymore suggests that we
> should at least provide a developer-level option to skip it.  The
> easier we can provide evidence to the gcc guys that their release
> are/aren't bootstrap-able, the more likely they'll stay
> bootstrap-able.

don't get too excited -- it didn't work well for sh3.  i'll post
details later if i think it's worth it and i can convince myself it
wasn't something *i* did.

rday

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