On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Aaron R aaronr.mb@gmail.com wrote:
My ARM target runs glibc 2.13 and I am having a hard time finding a linaro toolchain for it. It seems like all the ones I have found ship with glibc 2.15 (even old ones).
If you link statically, most code compiled against a newer glibc is likely to work. One potential problem is that a newer glibc might call a newer kernel syscall entry point, which may not exist in your kernel if you have an old one, but this is likely to be a rare problem. And of course anything that requires dynamic linking won't work if statically linked, but this is usually only a problem for large and complex programs.
Where can I find the binaries for a linux toolchain that targets armhf with glibc 2.13?
It looks like we have some very old releases that used eglibc-2.13 http://releases.linaro.org/archive/12.03/components/toolchain/binaries/ This was only tested on 4 year old linux versions which are obsolete, and is so old that we don't support it anymore. This being one of the very first binary toolchain releases from Linaro, I have no idea how well it works.
You may be better off if you build one yourself. If you can copy files off of your target, then create a target sysroot containing /lib, /usr/lib, and /usr/include. Put a copy of this target sysroot on your cross compiler host. Then configure binutils and gcc using --with-sysroot= pointing at the path to the target sysroot. You only need to build binutils and gcc, and you need to configure, build, and install binutils before doing the same for gcc. You can get the target gcc configure options by using gcc -v on the target, then adjust the options so that they make sense on the cross compiler build system, e.g. don't use --prefix=/usr as you should not install the cross compiler into /usr on the build system.
Jim