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Re: Partition size and glibc build



On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:07:43PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:

> > a) Bad cross-compiler (I had this alot before I got it right a few
> > years ago.  Now I'm using the debian packages, and I have no reason to
> > trust them)
> 
> BTW, what is the correct way to cross-build glibc? I used the "cheap"
> cross compiler from the gcc-i386-gnu package, and did
> 
>   dpkg-buildpackage -ahurd-i386 -uc -d -B -nc

Hmm, I just use:

dpkg-buildpackage -ahurd-i386 -B -rfakeroot

> The first problem was that no <mach/*.h> include files were found. I
> cheated and symlinked /usr/include/{mach,hurd} to
> /gnu/include/{mach,hurd}. Shouldn't the cross compiler take care of
> that?

The reason it's a 'cheap' cross compiler is because it depends on

a) gcc being a 2.95.4 functional i386-linux targetted compiler
b) It relies on your hurd partition being mounted as /gnu

> I also had to fix a few little bugs, as the virgin source package
> would not compile, but nothing insurmountable.

Good luck.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey




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