There is no glibc compiled for 2.4.0 for the mips architecture in
debian. (afaik)
Ok. Then it makes sense to try to cross-compile a glibc-2.7 for
mipsel with 2.4 headers...
Here is the status:
* no problem setting up gcc 4.2.4 and glibc 2.7 with linux 2.4 headers
* but glibc 2.7 does no longer provide linuxthreads (which was
"standard" in 2.4 systems) but only NPTL
* ok, no problem - let's cnfigure glibc for NPTL
* ugh - this requires TLS and the configure thinks it does not
(because configure runs on the BUILDHOST)
* ok, we have to convince configure that the MIPS processor can do TLS
* hm - now it configures fine but we need the system call
set_thread_area()
* this was not introduced before some 2.5.99 kernel
So - I am stuck again and don't know if it is worth the effort to
continue this way. I start to love Linux and the inherent
dependencies :)
Nikolaus
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