From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Likely Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 16:55:05 -0600 Subject: [Buildroot] glibc In-Reply-To: <20081001075303.GC18546@mx.loc> References: <1222827654.6792.0.camel@kokopelli> <20081001075303.GC18546@mx.loc> Message-ID: <20081004225505.GA11515@secretlab.ca> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:53:03AM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:20:54PM -0700, Brian Beattie wrote: > >has anybody built buildroot with glibc support? or is it in there and I > >just missed it? > > You can theoretically use an "external toolchain" which uses glibc. Not > sure what purpose such a thing would serve though. I've done just such a thing. I've used the codesourcery toolchain for powerpc which uses glibc. It works well for me. The reason I did it was that I was having trouble getting buildroot to produce a reliable crosscompiler for powerpc and wanted to use something known-good and stable since gcc cross compilers still seem to have a bit of black-magic associated with building one that works and what patches are required, especially in PPC land. g.