[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17133 - viric - in nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/development: interpreters/perl-5.10 libraries/glibc-2.9

[Lluís Batlle]

2009/9/15 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Llus Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> --- nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.9/default.nix  2009-09-14 20:13:08 UTC (rev 17132)
>> +++ nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.9/default.nix  2009-09-14 20:13:19 UTC (rev 17133)
>
> [...]
>
>>      "--host=arm-linux-gnueabi"
>>      "--build=arm-linux-gnueabi"
>
> Why is this needed?  I thought glibc would use the current system type
> by default.
As far as I tried, glibc doesn't guess the 'eabi' part well. We can
handle this in another way if you want, updating its config.guess, or
however it works. I don't know the autoconf stuff well enough to get
dirty on it. :)

Regards,
Lluís.