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Re: is that "install glibc headers" step in crosstool necessary?

From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
To: Bill Gatliff <bgat at billgatliff dot com>
Cc: crossgcc list <crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:32:39 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: is that "install glibc headers" step in crosstool necessary?
References: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511020633250.19258@localhost.localdomain><4368BFD0.9010804@billgatliff.com>

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Bill Gatliff wrote:

> The fact that it doesn't seem necessary anymore suggests that we
> should at least provide a developer-level option to skip it.  The
> easier we can provide evidence to the gcc guys that their release
> are/aren't bootstrap-able, the more likely they'll stay
> bootstrap-able.

this is almost certainly a dumb question but, to be able to skip the
"install glibc headers" step, this suggests that the bootstrap gcc
should be able to be created using solely the installed kernel
headers, is that correct?

rday

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