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From: Joe deBlaquiere <jadb@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Linus's include file strategy redux
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Last I recall you have to at least have newlib around to get through the 
build process of gcc. libgcc doesn't affect the kernel but you can't do 
'make install' without building it.

BTW : The Linux newlib stuff should go a long way toward solving some of 
these problems (at least for x86 these days... other arches sure to follow)

Peter Samuelson wrote:

> [Joe deBlaquiere]
> 
>> might be a good newbie filter... but actually the best thing about it
>> is that the compiler people of the work might make generating a
>> proper cross-toolchain less difficult by one or two magnitudes...
> 
> 
> *WHAT*?  How much less difficult could it possibly get?  This is the
> kernel, there is no cross-libc to worry about, so a cross-toolchain is
> already down to a pair of CMMIs[1].
> 
> I do agree that anyone who can't do *that* should probably be using a
> distro-packaged kernel....
> 
> Peter
> 
> [1] configure-make-make-install


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