RE: "empty" Makefile

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Ralf Corsepius
>Sent: 11 September 2005 09:06

> On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 03:50 -0400, Ethan Tira-Thompson wrote:

>> ...and it will generator a no-op Makefile which has all empty targets.
>> This seems to be because of line 1508 of configure: 1507:  
>> mips*-*-linux*) 1508:     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs target-newlib
>> target-libgloss" 1509:    ;; If I comment out 1508, then the build can
>> proceed as expected. 
>> 
>> My question is, why is the package disabled for all of the mips
>> targets?
> 
> It isn't.
> 
> newlib is disabled for mips*-*-linux*, but it isn't disabled for other
> mips*-* targets (eg. mips-rtems, mips-elf etc.)
> 
> Probably, mips*-*-linux* uses glibc2 and doesn't use newlib.
> 
>>   Does the current newlib release not support mips, or is
>> this some kind of oversight?
> It does support the mips architecture for a variety of OSes,
> but it doesn't support "Linux on mips".


  Basically, newlib doesn't support linux, and linux doesn't support newlib.
Linux requires a much more fully-featured libc than newlib, and generally
uses glibc.

  If you want a lightweight libc for embedded linux (or similar), you could
look at uClibc (http://www.uclibc.org/).  There may be others, see also

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=mcP&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla
%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=lightweight+c+library+for+embedded+linux&btnG=Search&m
eta=

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:ZyCjNE2X1dwJ:www.ibm.com/developerworks/l
inux/library/l-lwl1/+lightweight+c+library+for+embedded+linux&hl=en&client=f
irefox-a

etc etc etc ....


    cheers,
      DaveK
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