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On Wednesday 11 March 2009 10:06:48 JohnT wrote: > Using tarballs from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/ on system: Mandriva > 2006 Powerpack, i686, installed kernel 2.6.12, glibc 2.3.5, gcc 4.2.4, > gettext 0.17, binutils 2.18, gmp 4.2.4, mpfr 2.31. > > I had problems building versions of glibc >= 2.6 and learned from someone > that these versions don't seem to set the target architecture with a > reasonable default such as the target system that is detected by the > configure script. I haven't checked to see if the --with-cpu=CPU > configuration setting works, but in versions prior to 2.6 the architecture > defaulted to the target system's architecture. This isn't exactly a bug, > but it certainly seems undocumented and puts people at a disadvantage in > not knowing they must add either the --with-cpu=CPU setting or a compiler > flag such as -march=i586. you're going to have to be a little more specific (like actual commands run and actual errors seen). people are building glibc-2.9 for i[456]86 targets seemingly without a problem. i dont recall seeing any myself. -mike
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