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Re: RFH: libgcc_s.so being unnecessarily linked for mipsel-linux cross compiler...
On Thursday 28 July 2005 08:22 pm, James E Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 16:58, Greg Schafer wrote:
> > Glibc headers ARE provided -> inhibit_libc NOT defined -> optimal
> > Glibc headers ARE NOT provided -> inhibit_libc IS defined -> suboptimal
>
> This is basically what I meant, but I don't want to get in a debate
> about what is optimal and what isn't. Maybe I should have used a
> different word.
>
> Anyways, I regard Dan Kegel's crosstools as the best source of info on
> doing linux cross toolchain builds. His scripts get this right, and
> aren't very hard to use. There are also other ways of getting the same
> result.
Dan's crosstool installs glibc headers before attempting any gcc steps since
afaik any other method is unsupported by the gcc team
-mike