From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:55:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gandalf.physik.uni-konstanz.de ([IPv6:::ffff:134.34.144.69]:41913 "EHLO gandalf.physik.uni-konstanz.de") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:55:09 +0000 Received: from merry.physik.uni-konstanz.de (merry.physik.uni-konstanz.de [134.34.144.91]) by gandalf.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9414A90; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:55:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from agx by merry.physik.uni-konstanz.de with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18iY4A-0004fU-00; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:55:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:55:06 +0100 From: Guido Guenther To: Andrew Clausen Cc: Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: porting arcboot Message-ID: <20030211105506.GA17935@merry> References: <20030210034549.GA8408@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com> <20030210100319.GA30624@merry> <20030210223955.GF8408@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030210223955.GF8408@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1388 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: agx@gandalf.physik.uni-konstanz.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:39:55AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote: > * e2fsprogs uses libc headers quite extensively, but there is no > glibc available for mips64 (right?). It also seems to make quite a > few libc calls? (How are you planning to deal with that? Link > against it statically? What about syscalls?) e2fsprogs doesn't call glibc (in fact in can't since we don't link arcboot against non PIC glibc). It calls arclib. -- Guido