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- In message <199806031348.GAA27458@toontown.mmsi.com>, Jon Olson writes:
- >Hmmm... `ELF toolchain' implies a compiler and binutils... I already
- >built those. What takes real time and effort is building libc,
- >everything else that links to it including X11, testing it, and
- >packaging it up in RPM files. Is this what you're working on, Phil?
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- No. What I've been working on (though Scott Bambrough and Pat Beirne deserve
- credit for a lot of this) is updating the ELF compiler and binutils to support
- position-independent code and hence shared libraries, porting glibc2 to the
- ARM, and fixing the bugs so it all works together.
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- Once this is done, building an entire system and packaging it in RPM files
- should just be a mechanical matter of feeding it all through `rpm'. Most of
- the difficulties people have in building things for Linux/ARM at the moment
- are quirks of a.out or the stone-age libc that we use.
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