Re: [discuss] Problem building cross compiler for x86_64

[Kai Ruottu <karuottu at mbnet dot fi>]

Dave Korn wrote:

>  Blimey, "cross-glibc" was just shorthand for "cross-compiled glibc", how on
> earth you could claim to think I was talking about some kind of magic C
> library that could somehow run on one machine yet the function calls take
> effect on another?  This is just pedantry with words!
>  
When not knowing how this magic "crosstool" does things, from the 
messages here I thought having seen
people really producing their glibcs two or more times, once for each 
host and then still another time for the
native host and GCC when trying to create that with a crosscompiler...

If people really produce their glibcs only once (without fixing any 
bugs between the builds), then I have
nothing to complain or correct, this is really just as things should 
be...  The C library will be built only once
and tested thoroughly and then copied into each host where it is needed. 
That should be clear. And if it
is already built and thoroughly tested by some company and its 
customers, why anyone would like to
rebuild it?

As told, I'm against all this "Siberian will teach" bullying, saying 
people that they must do the same things
again and again, from scratch all the time.


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