[uClibc]Re: [BusyBox] tar and getopt (again)

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Jan 22, 2001 at 04:06:51PM -0600, Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Completely agreed.  We will need per-platform long long support routines (that will
> > live in sysdeps/linux/<arch>) but that is simple enough.
> 
> What's wrong with just pulling them from libgcc.a in object form and adding
> them to the shared uClibc, since the symbol references are generated by
> gcc in the first place?

I suppose that is ok.  The real problem is knowing apriori which functions
we need, since it will change per platform.  I suppose we could hack up
the makefile to check which arch we are building for.

> > This is essentially what mklibs.sh does for the debian boot floppies.
> >     http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/mklibs.sh
> 
> No sense reinventing _that_ wheel then.  ;-)

:-)

 -Erik

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