Re: porting glibc 2.2.5 to a hobby OS

[Andreas Jaeger]

"Christopher Nelson" <address@hidden> writes:

>   Hello.  I hate to bother everyone with something that's likely a very
> trivial question, but I've been unable to find documents specifiying
> exactly what to do to port glibc 2.2.5.  I need to modify the sysdeps
> directory, this I know.  But what?  And how?  If you could let me know
> where, exactly, there is a list of things to do to port the library I'd
> be very appreciative.  The OS is just a little project I'm doing for fun
> and education, and I'm at the point where I need to be able to write
> something a little more complex than some printf's.  Thanks.

There's some stuff in the glibc manual mentioning this - and I advise
to look at an existing port: compile glibc for e.g. i686-linux and
check how the sysdeps directory is used.

Andreas
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