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Re: another proposed crosstool project

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:07 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2007, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 05:12 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > > 1) is there any *theoretical* reason why the generated headers from
> > > the latest kernel source tree shouldn't work for *all* builds?  yes or
> > > no?  if not, why not?
> >
> > The obvious reason: many cross builds are not targeting linux!
> 
> ok, i should have been more precise -- for those builds that *require*
> a set of kernel headers, the newly-generated ones via "make
> headers_install" should be universally sufficient.

This isn't precise. ALL builds require a set of system headers, because
critical things like libstdc++ will not build unless system headers are
provided.

My point is that the system headers you need to install are inherently
dependent on the target OS.

shap


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