[uClibc] Buildtools and Linux 2.4.7 (RedHat 7.1)

[wct2003jm at comcast.net]

I had my buildtools-produced, happily functioning cross compiler and binutils all set, thanks in large part to the efforts of uClibc and this list's participants. Let's give them a hand, folks!

Before I waste time on a clumsy solution, I thought I'd just ask the simple question: is uClibc and buildtools supported at all on Redhat 7.1? Is there a solution other than massive editing? If not, does anyone already have a list of the utilities I should relink to support the build (sed, bison, ..)?

Here's the write-up:

I built everything against Redhat 9, then exported the binaries over NFS for team use and found to my dismay that we're about 50/50 divided between two Redhat distributions. GCC worked but the loader (ld) did not, as it depended upon a newer version of GLIBC.

No big worries, I thought, for the time being I'll just build the tools against   both releases, and we'll be flying again in an hour or two.

But the first complication was that buildtools and the 'make's it fires off depend - heavily - on 'sed -i'. The RH 7.1 systems have sed version 3.02, which predates 'sed --in-place' (-i).

I thought about compiling 'sed' V4 against RH 7.1 and its libraries, but this is likely the tip of an iceberg, right? First sed, then autoconf? then ..?

If not - I'm open for advice. I understand uClibc's goals and directions and don't expect them to retrofit it to every old release of every OS :-) I just sort of hope that RH 7.1 fits in, somehow..

Thanks,
-wt
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:01:03PM +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > The following tests fail for automake-1.7.9:
> > auxdir2,cond17,subdir5
> 
> I get XFAIL for all 3.  According to tests/README, that means the
> tests were expected to fail.
> 
> Manuel
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