Re: [Tinycc-devel] autoconfiscation

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

Rob Landley wrote:
> The reason you can't run a glibc version of gcc against uClibc is that pieces 
> of gcc like libgcc_s.so link against their libc, and leak references to that 
> libc.  So if you ever divide by a 64 bit number on a 32 bit platform or weird 
> corner cases like that, a reference to glibc sneaks into your uClibc program.  
> Since libgcc is part of the gcc source code, the only way to build a version 
> of that library which leaks a reference the _right_ libc is to rebuild gcc 
> against uClibc, from source code.

This is just because libgcc is dynamically linked.  You can change that, only 
producing a static version, which in turn never introduces references to  a 
specific libc.  Don't ask me how to do that officially, because my setup uses 
completely different makefiles alltogether.

cheers
 simon

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