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Re: Generating a toolchain for big-endian arm with ct-ng.


On Tuesday 06 January 2009 09:17:08 Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 08:33:29 Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> >> trying to build the toolchain with an earlier version of glibc fails,
> >> glibc is looking for asm/procinfo.h which is not installed by Linux'
> >> headers_install target. A solution is to modify Linux makefiles so that
> >> asm/procinfo.h is copied.
> >
> > or fix glibc ... it's pretty easy
>
> I found patching the kernel an easier way to make any version of glibc
> compatible with any version of Linux headers.

except now you'll be forcing every version of Linux headers to carry backwards 
compat cruft forever and you'll be unable to break the cycle.  i imagine 
people have already written patches for whatever issue you're hitting.
-mike

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