From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:10:23 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] glibc philosophy
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>>>>> "jeff" == jeff angielski <jeff@theptrgroup.com> writes:

Hi,

 jeff> Is there a plan to support building glibc from scratch in buildroot,
 jeff> just like uclibc is currently supported?  

It's afaik not on the radar of any of the BR developers.

 jeff> Or is the official stance to only allow buildroot to build against
 jeff> pre-compiled glibc toolchains?

That depends. If someone submits clean enough patches to do it, and
people are willing to support it, then I don't see any problem with
doing it.

But I'm not personally interested in it, so I won't be working on it.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard