toolchain - a newbie question

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Tue Nov 21 17:08:38 UTC 2006


On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 04:19:53PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
>On Tuesday 21 November 2006 09:43, stari pas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've built uClibc libraries using gnu cross development tools.
>> Now, the INSTALL file says (under USING uClibc):
>>
>>  "To compile programs with uClibc you will need a complete toolchain
>>   (i.e. binutils, gcc, and uClibc) that was built expressly for use
>>   with uClibc."
>>
>> My interpretation of this is that my original cross tools now need to
>> be rebuilt in order to use uClibc.
>> Is my assumption right?
>
>Yes.
>
>Technically there are some shortcuts you can take, but by far the simplest and 
>most reliable solution is to rebuild everything.

Let me add that there is infrastructure that does this for you unless
you want to recompile your whole system by hand.
buildroot.uclibc.org

HTH,



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