Re: porting glibc to sparc-sun-solaris2

[Andreas Jaeger]

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> We're in a crashy project to port glibc to host sparc-sun-solaris2 and target
> mips-*-elf.  I have version 2.2.5.  According to INSTALL, it used to run
> on sparc/Solaris 2.x.  It doesn't look like it to me.  It looks like it

Glibc 1.0.x used to work on solaris.  glibc 2.x never did.

> is more than a matter of a few tweaks; it looks like infrastructure is 
> missing.
> Particluarly, most of the directories have a 'linux' node in their path, and
> no corresponding solaris nodes exist.  I don't suppose I'd get so lucky as to
> simply rename a linux node to solaris and have it work?  

No.

>
> I'm a little confused by exactly what "run on" an architecture here means.

IF you do a cross compilation, you're only concerned about the
target.  The host needs to have all tools but the target needs to be
supported.

> I'm building the system on Solaris 2.6, so obviously, make and etc have to
> "run" on the host.  But the code in the library object modules will of course
> match the target system, which is an embedded MIPS core running Cisco IOS.
> I don't suppose this would be a problem?  How reliant on the underlying
> target OS is it?  It didn't bounce me on target mips-unknown-elf, so I
> assume the code will sort of work and sort of doesn't need anything too much
> from the target OS.
>
> Anyone working on this port?  Anything you can tell me?

Nobody is AFAIK working on mips-unknown-elf,

Andreas
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