bug#73006: [PATCH 0/2] gnu: glibc: Fix cross-compiling.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Zheng Junjie <zhengjunjie@iscas.ac.cn> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> thing, as suggested in the discussion at
>> <https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/d72f5f6f-cc3a-bd89-0800-ffb068928e0f@linaro.org/t/>,
>> and that means ‘objdump-for-target’ & co. shouldn’t be necessary.
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> glibc 2.35 have "glibc-cross-objdump.patch" and "glibc-cross-objcopy.patch"
> patch, but glibc 2.39 not have them, so 2.39 cross compiling try use objdump
> and build fail, and 2.35 success.

The reason 2.39 doesn’t have these patches in Guix is because they were
integrated upstream, if I’m not mistaken.  Or am I missing something?

> I checked again today. because (gnu services base)'s nscd-configuration
> default use glibc, not '(cross-libc target)', This is why glibc was
> introduced. Maybe the following patch can also be useful.
>
> From f23d1e48bd0fd9d3b66cbc831cc40f475faff7a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> Message-ID: 
> <f23d1e48bd0fd9d3b66cbc831cc40f475faff7a4.1725551406.git.zhengjunjie@iscas.ac.cn>
> From: Zheng Junjie <zhengjunjie@iscas.ac.cn>
> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 23:48:34 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] services: nscd: When cross-compiling, Use (cross-libc
>  target).
>
> * gnu/services/base.scm (nscd-configuration)[glibc]: When cross-compiling,
> Use (cross-libc target).
>
> Change-Id: Ib219459b1ec28f7edfac075e70be3d61edf72d27

Yes, this one doesn’t hurt, applied.

Thanks,
Ludo’.