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Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 31, 2013 21:45 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178)
In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by khim
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

>Sure. You can use GLibC with two different kernels (and soon with third one if you'll count NaCl as separate "kernel") but it can only be used with GCC and binutils - and you need quite recent versions of both.

I'm not sure what you define as quite recent, but as of last month the minimum requirements are binutils-2.20 and gcc-4.3, which are both 3+ years old. Before that you could still build glibc with gcc-2.95.3 with a bit of futzing.

Oh, it also requires a kernel later than 2.6.16 (or 3.7 if you want AArch64 support which is obviously a conspiracy) so I guess you'll have to make some room for it under your tightly-knit GNU umbrella.


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