Kai Ruottu wrote:
If one has "some suitable" target C library, the '--enable-shared --enable-threads' can be used, otherwise both must be disabled and the result is a stripped GCC which maybe can or can not compile the C library ok. One cannot be sure about this without very deep understanding about the C library doings...
I forgot to tell that the glibc-2.3.5 made with the stripped GCC and the glibc-2.3.5 made with the complete GCC were different in their library sizes, for instance the 'libc-2.3.5.so' was 1329938 bytes when produced with the stripped GCC but 1293873 bytes when produced with the complete GCC. The SuSE 10.0/ppc one was 1510896 bytes for their glibc-2.3.5-40 (the 32-bit library). Whether gcc-3.4.4 produces smaller code than gcc-4.0.2 (used in SuSE) or then there are other big changes in their own glibc-2.3.5... Comparing those sizes is almost everything one could do simply, but tools like 'nm' and 'objdump' could allow one to investigate the differences more deeply...
