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Re: abilist problems


Steven Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com> writes:

|> Roland McGrath writes:
|> 
|>  > Now that it's been pointed out, I've noticed that _nl_default_dirname
|>  > has bogus different sizes in the sh and powerpc64 lists I've been
|>  > sent. This must be from builds not using --prefix=/usr, and I don't
|>  > know any reason why that should be done.
|> 
|> The current Suse SLES 8 distro for PPC64 installs the 64-bit tool chain as
|> /opt/cross/powerpc64-linux. As this is our current development platform we
|> don't build PPC64 with --prefix=/usr.

A cross toolchain is special.  The prefix for the target libc should still
be /usr (since that's what the target system will use), but installing it
into the cross tree requires some shuffling and editing so that it works
with the cross compiler.

Andreas.

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