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Re: Building a static toolchain ?

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2. If you have built your toolchain statically linked to an older
>> glibc then wouldn't it would mean you couldn't compile programs which
>> use newer system calls (e.g. futex, inotify)?
>
> you have to understand that the toolchain components themselves need a
> libc when they run. Its not same as the target libc that you
> would use to link the programs that will be generated by your
> statically linked cross compiler.

D'oh! Of course, thanks :-D

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