Re: Compiling sources with different libc6 versions

Keith Smith <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:39:22 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.wireless.access-point
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I simply have slackware-8.1 installed into a directory, that I run "chroot"
to do all the work at the moment.  Makes life very simple.

Lluis wrote:
> El 15/02/04, a les 20:52:20, Keith Smith ens deleità amb les següents paraules:
> 
>>It's likely GCC not glibc.  You should be compiling with uClibc for
>>the wl11000, otherwise nothing fits.
>>
> 
> well, in fact i use the "cross compilers" generated by uClibc to compile
> applications, but they aren't really cross compilers, but just a wrapper
> to use the correct libs, so for what i've seen, changing the version of
> the system's glibc influences on compile time (although i don't know if
> the influence is direct or caused by the use of a uClibc compiled with
> that lib)
> 
> my actual workaround is to manually install the "old" version of libc6
> and libc6-dev, even if it breaks my system's dependencies, after each
> upgrade... it's not the best way, but works ;)
> 
> read you!