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On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 11:13 AM Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
<libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 09/06/2021 15:02, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha wrote:
> >
> >> I disagree.  The behavior of the cross compiler should be as close to the native
> >> Linux system compiler, not other versions of cross compilers, as possible.
> >
> > But fixing that was the point of your GCC patch.  I don't think working
> > around deficiencies in previous versions of GCC, that aren't necessary to
> > work around for building glibc, is within scope for build-many-glibcs.py;
> > it's enough that the bug (cross compiler different from native) was fixed
> > in the logically correct place (in GCC, for future GCC releases).
>
> But this also does not have any really drawback, correct?
>
> I thinking for the possible support to add a way to build a specific
> gcc/binutins/glibc version with build-many-glibcs.py.

See:

https://gitlab.com/hjl.tools/x86-64-linux-toolchain

-- 
H.J.