[haiku-development] Re: Updates relating to build-o-matic, haiku-files.org

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:14:23 -0700

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:00:24 -0700 Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> I think I also asked recently if libroot.so had both a gcc2 and gcc4
>> flavor on our hybrid installs, and it didn't yet?
>
> There might have been some misunderstanding. There are two flavors of all 
> libraries built from the Haiku sources on hybrid builds (check the "gcc4" 
> respectively "gcc2" subdirectory of /system/lib). Your question might have 
> been misinterpreted as whether there are libroots built from different 
> sources for the two gccs. That isn't the case, but we eventually plan to 
> freeze the current libroot sources for gcc 2 (to keep backwards binary 
> compatibility) and start with a fresh C library (e.g. FreeBSD's libc or a 
> newer glibc, or ...), for gcc 4.

Thanks for clearing that up.

I admit, I haven't used/tested a hybrid in quite a while - I usually
run straight GCC4 builds myself.

- Urias

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