On 02/13/2014 11:34 PM, ronf wrote: > I was surprised that the procedure for building the glibc packages (from > source) relied so heavily on glibc packages that were already installed. One > great feature of a compiler collection like GCC is the ability of compilers > to compile themselves from source. I was surprised that the build process > was so dependent on kernel libraries. I can understand gcc using kernel > libraries for its own internal operations, but I don't believe the build of > a GCC source package should be including kernel source (headers) from > outside the package or needing to link the compiled object code with kernel > libraries other than those generated by part of the build. What kernel libraries are you talking about? Please be specific. Andrew.
