Simon Geard wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 13:02 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:

[...]

>> What is the issue? Does the GCC have special "hooks" into the
>> kernel or sth like that?
> 
> GCC doesn't - but glibc does. Not my area of expertise, but I assume a
> 2.4 kernel simply doesn't provide the necessary syscall interfaces to
> build a modern glibc.

However, the one being _built_ is the one needing the hooks, not
the one running. As long as one has full source for everything
being built, and isn't relying upon the include files for the
one being run, it shouldn't matter.

So, I still don't get it.

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