On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:45:49PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote: > I'm planning to try porting arcboot to ip27 (mips64). > > I plan to do this by cross-compiling... this is actually the only > option since there's no 64 bit userland yet. > > Some issues: > > * I'll be cross-compiling (using the mips64-linux-gcc & friends that > are provided on ftp.linux-mips.org), which means some makefile hacking... > > * there's no mips64-linux glibc, which means no libc headers are > available. So I need to either cut&paste libc headers, or remove > dependencies on them. This affects lots of code. > > * the e2fs stuff... how is this being maintained? It uses libc > headers a bit... can I kill them? Or will this make it hard to update > to new upstream e2fsprogs releases? > > Anything else? Arcboot is a standalone program. As such it shouldn't use anything from glibc or it's going to be a royal pain in the lower back extension. Look at Milo, spit and say no. So keeping a private copy of the necessary headers is the only sane way to get things to work. Ralf
