Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> > [3] Building the toolchains (binutils, gcc, glibc) involves a lot of
> > knowledge of largely undocumented features. [And those features aren't
> > designed to be independent of each other -- changing one option might
> > involve changing a few others just to allow the build to work at all.]
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:30:17AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> What undocumented features are these? I've built the toolchain plenty
> of times and never had to use any undocumented features.
Well, for example, consider how --prefix= magically impacts what gets
built.
Or, tell me a bit about when when it's safe to use --without-gd
independently of --without-cvs.
Once again: it's easy to build glibc natively for x86, as long as you
start from the proper prebuilt toolchain.
--
Raul
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