[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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Ah, OK.

> 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. :)

No, it’s fine this way.  I was just wondering.

Ludo’.