diff -r 19205498184e -r 4baa6a9f6415 docs/overview.txt --- a/docs/overview.txt Tue Nov 17 10:01:22 2009 -0800 +++ b/docs/overview.txt Fri Jan 15 22:21:12 2010 +0100 @@ -626,20 +626,6 @@ 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. - ________________ /