I follow what you're saying now. Thanks! On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/04/2016 06:46 PM, Michael Habibi wrote: >> I think the reason we went with crosstool-ng in the past is that we >> are using a custom built distribution based on a vanilla kernel and >> some various open source/IP added on top. Over time, we have needed to >> upgrade gcc/glibc to pick up changes/CVEs, etc. Given that, I don't >> think we can simply leverage the target files of another available >> distribution and expect it to plug into ours cleanly for the purposes >> of rebuilding gcc. > > Sure, but it gets you a working compiler to begin with without you > having to build your own libc first, even if it's the "wrong" distro. > When you have the "right" distro you can build it again. This is, > more or less, what crosstool does. > > Each to their own. > > Andrew. >
