GNU bug report logs - #21216
glibc and linux-libre-headers

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 21216-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:15:40 +0100

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:23:40 +0200
> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> However, instead of installing the ‘glibc’ package, you may want to
>> install the ‘gcc-toolchain’ package, which provides all the tools needed
>> to do software development (GCC, libc, Binutils, the ‘ld wrapper’, etc.)
>
> I tried that now - that works fine. 
>
> Why can I install glibc (when it doesn't work anyway)? What's the difference?

The most important difference is the linker wrapper (“ld-wrapper”),
which makes sure -Wl,-rpath is passed for each library against which we
link.

> Is it documented?

Not yet, but you can help!  :-)

Ludo’.

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