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