From 652d8eebd9e3b333954d67f8036df032c902493d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Strand Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:48:21 +0000 Subject: documentation: Remove refs to seemingly native toolchains issue Remove references to the seemingly native toolchains do not build issue as it seems to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Richard Strand diff --git a/docs/known-issues.txt b/docs/known-issues.txt index 757939f..1b19bc1 100644 --- a/docs/known-issues.txt +++ b/docs/known-issues.txt @@ -32,32 +32,6 @@ So now, on for the real issues... -------------------------------- Symptoms: - Seemingly native toolchains do not build. - -Explanations: - Seemingly native toolchains are toolchains that target the same architecture - as the one it is built on, and on which it will run, but the machine tuple - may be different (eg i686 vs. i386, or x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu vs. - x86_64-pc-linux-gnu). - - This seems to happen when building glibc-2.7 based toolchains only, for - x86 and for x86_64. - - Only the system part of the tuple (here, linux-gnu) needs to be the same to - trigger the bug. Which means that building a tolchain for either x86 or - x86_64 on either x86 or x86_64 breaks. - -Fix: - None known. - -Workaround: - It seems that using -O2 in the CFLAGS fixes the problem. It has been - confirmed in the following threads: - http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2009-09/msg00055.html (for glibc) - http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2009-10/msg00001.html (for eglibc) - --------------------------------- -Symptoms: gcc is not found, although I *do* have gcc installed. Explanations: diff --git a/docs/overview.txt b/docs/overview.txt index 94c1f86..1a2a622 100644 --- a/docs/overview.txt +++ b/docs/overview.txt @@ -626,20 +626,6 @@ anyway!) were all being hashed out, Canada had three national political parties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler -Seemingly-native toolchains | -----------------------------+ - -Seemingly-native toolchains are toolchains that target the same architecture -as the one it is built on, and on which it will run, but the machine tuple -may be different (eg i686 vs. i386, or x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu vs. -x86_64-pc-linux-gnu). This also applies if the target architecture is of the -same kind (eg. x86 vs. x86_64, or ppc vs. ppc64). - -Such toolchain is tricky to build, as the configure scripts may incorrectly -assume that files (headers and libs) from the build (or host) machine can be -used by the cross-compiler it is going to build. The problem seems to arise -only with glibc (and eglibc?) starting with version 2.7. - ________________ / -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6