From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed Feb 17 13:15:54 2016 Received: (at 21216-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Feb 2016 18:15:54 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59878 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aW6dm-0002c1-4Z for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:15:54 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60953) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aW6dk-0002bm-Iy for 21216-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:15:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW6dc-0007tw-1A for 21216-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:15:47 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW6db-0007tq-OI; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:15:43 -0500 Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]:37942 helo=pluto) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aW6da-0006zL-Pv; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:15:43 -0500 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers References: <20150808015559.12b499ac@scratchpost.org> <87614cieo3.fsf@gnu.org> <20160216191632.06944fe6@scratchpost.org> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 29 =?utf-8?Q?Pluvi=C3=B4se?= an 224 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x3D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:15:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160216191632.06944fe6@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:16:32 +0100") Message-ID: <87si0r19v7.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21216-done Cc: 21216-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:23:40 +0200 > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote: > >> However, instead of installing the =E2=80=98glibc=E2=80=99 package, you = may want to >> install the =E2=80=98gcc-toolchain=E2=80=99 package, which provides all = the tools needed >> to do software development (GCC, libc, Binutils, the =E2=80=98ld wrapper= =E2=80=99, etc.) > > I tried that now - that works fine.=20 > > Why can I install glibc (when it doesn't work anyway)? What's the differe= nce? The most important difference is the linker wrapper (=E2=80=9Cld-wrapper=E2= =80=9D), which makes sure -Wl,-rpath is passed for each library against which we link. > Is it documented? Not yet, but you can help! :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.