[Buildroot] buildroot noob help!

[Jed Evnull]

On Oct 17, 2011 10:22 AM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2011-10-17, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday 15 October 2011 23:59:07, Jed Evnull wrote:
> >> Sorry, I was probably incoherent. My goal is to produce arm binaries
for my
> >> tablet. I want them as small as possible, so I want statically linked
> >> packages with uclibc, rather than glibc.
> >
> > If you want them as small as possible, you should _not_ link them
> > statically...
> >
> > However, I guess the real problem is that you don't have access to
> > the cross-compilation shared libraries and headers for your tablet.
> > In that case linking statically is indeed a good solution.  Follow
> > Grant's suggestion to use crosstool-NG.  Keep in mind though that for
> > quite a few existing packages, linking statically doesn't work well
> > (GStreamer and it's dependents, for instance).
>
> Yep.  Anything that uses "plugins" (object files that are fouand,
> selected, and loaded dynamically under program control after the
> program is running) is going to be allergic to static linking.
>
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Thanks for all the replies, it's been a great help. I'm building a toolchain
with ct-ng now.
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