Subject: [alpine-devel] nptl status report

From: Natanael Copa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:27:43 +0200

Hi,

So, Timo and I have been working on uclibc with nptl. things that have happened:

* We have fixed all major issues so compiling things with nptl should work.
* Lots of patches have been sent to uclibc developers and have been applied.
* Upstream uclibc have finally merged the nptl branch to master
* We have started look info how to perform an upgrade of nptl - we
figured that we need change the abi version number to be able to clean
upgrades.
* Changing ABI version requires a bootstrap of toolchain (gcc/uclibc/binutils).
* Bootstrapping uclibc-nptl development environment requires cross
compilation to work.

So basicly, last week was getting uclibc-nptl work at all, this week
have been work on crosscompilation. The nice thing with making
crosscompile work is that it brings us half way to x86_64, arm, mips.

We have been able to build a cross compiler using crosstools-ng, make
minor fixes so we can use the apkbuilds for crosscompile and at
writing moment it looks like we have a working sysroot with working
native toolchain. So next week we will try bootstrap new abuild and
have a new fresh nptl powered build environment.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

-- 
Natanael Copa

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From: Carlo Landmeter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 08:17:51 +0200

> Have a nice weekend everyone.

Wow, thats really cool. Now i know why you didn't have time for all my
silly questions last week.
Looking forward for a release.

Carlo

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