Re: kernel/glibc headers/gcc bootstrap circular dependencies redux

[Khem Raj <kraj at mvista dot com>]

Mike Frysinger wrote:

> to kind of bring back an older thread, i was talking to Paul (of superh fame) 
> earlier today and i couldnt understand how he wasnt having trouble with 
> bootstrapping a sh toolchain with gcc-3.4.3 like i was
>
> turns out it's because he's always used crosstool while i'm doing it by 
> hand :)  so i spent a few minutes reading crosstool.sh to figure out what was 
> going on and i think i know now why Dan and i were having such issues 
> communicating in the kernel-requires-gcc-but-gcc-requires-kernel thread ...
>
> crosstool works around the fact that gcc's --without-headers is somewhat 
> broken in gcc-3+ while i try to fix gcc to work with that feature ... so 
> crosstool does:
> setup kernel headers (using sanitized versions)
> setup binutils
> setup a bunch of basic glibc headers
> setup gcc, glibc, etc...
>
> while i do:
> setup binutils
> patch gcc to work with the --without-headers
>  
Will you propogate your patch to upstream gcc? is gcc upstream accepting 
the inhibit_libc patch?
has the glibc been tested when built with your approarch.?

> setup gcc
> setup kernel headers (using the kernel source)
> setup glibc, etc...
>
> hope that clears up some things ;)
> -mike
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