GLIBC-2.2 bug & patch

[Robb, Sam]

Folks,

  Attached is a patch (glibc-2.2-cygwin-shared.patch) against the
current (2.2) development tree.  If you are not the people I
should be sending this patch to, please either let mw know where
it needs to go, or feel free to forward it as needed.

  It allows a cross-compiler under Cygwin to build glibc with
--enable-shared, and get sane & usable libraries.  Without the
patch, the FAT/NTFS (both case sensitive) filesystems are unable
to tell the difference between the results of building a file
for inclusion in a shared object (.os) or a static library (.oS).

  The patch changes Makeconfig and Makerules to use .on object
files that are intended to be non-dynamic (included in a static
library.)

  I have successfully used variations on this patch to cross-compile
usable versions of glibc 2.1.x for ARM, PowerPC, and x86 Linux targets.

-Samrobb

glibc-2.2-cygin-shared.patch
Description: glibc-2.2-cygin-shared.patch