Re: Help with cross-compiling glibc toolchain

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 17:02:07 Daniel Jabbour wrote:
> I am trying to build a cross-compiled glibc toolchain on a non-linux
> platform. My only issue involves a problem with the include path for
> glibc. I have patched glibc with a cross-tools patch from the CLFS
> project. This basically makes glibc compile a native localedef-native
> binary so localedata/insatll-locales will work in the cross-compiler.

cross-compiling issues really should go to the crossgcc list

> I realize this list doesn't support this patch, however, the issue is
> that it cannot find libintl.h during compilation. This is part of the
> GNU gettext utilities package.

or the C library.  glibc provides this on a GNU systems and libiconv provides 
it on systems that lack it.

> First, I tried to pass it to the configure script for glibc by way of
> CPPFLAGS. In this case my configure command looked like:

iirc, glibc doesnt support CPPFLAGS via configure.

> When I did a make, however, it still didn't find libintl.h, and I
> noticed no -I/opt/local/include in the gcc commands that it called.

so compile it by hand, or add it to your patch.
-mike

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