Bug 93362

Summary:	crossdev should provide alternate means for selecting another libc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) <lack>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Adds '--u \| --uClibc' flag to select uClibc instead of glibc

Description Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-20 12:38:35 UTC

For cross-compiling a kernel from mips-linux.org, it looks like the default CROSS_COMPILE prefix will be 'mipsel-linux-' - Which is fine (I think I can specify crossdev --target mipsel-linux without any problems)

Except that this forces me to use glibc.  I would like to use uclibc, but then the target name has to end in -uclibc which won't jive with mips-linux.org.

I suggest that there should be another cmdline switch to pick between glibc and uclibc (and whatever other libcs there are out there) which doesn't depend on the name of the target.

Comment 1 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-20 12:46:23 UTC

Created attachment 59400 [details, diff]
Adds '--u | --uClibc' flag to select uClibc instead of glibc

This seems to work. (lightly tested)

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-05-20 12:47:50 UTC

no, the name must contain '-uclibc'