> Kai Ruottu wrote: > What I have thought being the aim in producing a "normal" glibc, > one which should work both as a "native" glibc, and as a "cross" > glibc, is using the '--prefix=/usr'. In my case, my native system is x86, and the cross one is MIPS. Even if the architectures are the same, I don't believe in mixing target code with the development platform. There is the potential to screw things up. If you're cross-compiling, you should run the code on the target system, or in some isolated environment on the development system (emulator with support for a different CPU if necessary, chrooted tree, ...). With chroot, you can have the library installed in /lib, exactly as on the target. There is the problem of sharing the same kernel as the host system too. On my development system, I might be running some old kernel, but want a newer one underneath the target glibc. > > make install_root=$sysroot I patched glibc's configure.in and config.make to support --with-sysroot, which sets up that variable at configuration time. It's surprising that such an important variable is left out from the configuration.
