Re: [PATCH] libc/eglibc: add an option to enable obsolete RPC building

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at free dot fr>]

Mike, All,

On Wednesday 17 October 2012 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2012 09:28:07 Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> >  - 2.14 and 2.15 do not contain RPC at all,
> 
> that's not true.  glibc has never dropped the runtime symbols (so old apps 
> continue to work fine).  it did however drop the symbols which allow you to 
> link new applications against the rpc code.

You are right. But for the sake of a cross-compilation toolchain that will
build and link user code to libs from the toolchain, the end effect for the
user of the toolchain is exactly as if RPC was not available in the tolchain
at all. We're taking a shortcut by saying "no RPC at all", but it fits quite
OK in the context of crosstool-NG.

Of course, pre-build applications will still be able to run, as the lib
with the rpc symbols is still available and installed.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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