From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30012 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2010 21:22:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 30000 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Mar 2010 21:22:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yw0-f183.google.com (HELO mail-yw0-f183.google.com) (209.85.211.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:22:19 +0000 Received: by ywh13 with SMTP id 13so313311ywh.12 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:22:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.32.66 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:22:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201003242043.51934.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> <3530b0eb1003241304q5504a690sa1a64230e6687e3b@mail.gmail.com> <201003252324.12780.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> <4BB3B590.3080102@andric.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:22:00 -0000 Received: by 10.101.2.30 with SMTP id e30mr444835ani.74.1270070536465; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: Building a static toolchain ? From: Khem Raj To: Trevor Woerner Cc: crossgcc@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact crossgcc-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > Okay, thanks so much for the information! > > Just out of curiosity: > > 1. Since newer glibc's are compatible with older glibc's (but not the > other way around) is it not possible to take the latest glibc and > lower the 'minimum supported kernel version'? in addition to system calls. there could be other symbols which are not present in older libc > > 2. If you have built your toolchain statically linked to an older > glibc then wouldn't it would mean you couldn't compile programs which > use newer system calls (e.g. futex, inotify)? you have to understand that the toolchain components themselves need a libc when they run. Its not same as the target libc that you would use to link the programs that will be generated by your statically linked cross compiler. > > -- > For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq > > -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq