[ELDK] ELDK 4.2 static linking

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Azra,

in message <a9067d050804171207m7e198a88m16bd9bb84f659d4e at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Today I tried to test the gcj from ELDK 4.2 for a PPC405EP.
> Because the system the application should running on is 3
> years old (with Linux 2.4 and uclibc) i thought to link the
> HelloWorld.java statically. Everything went fine till i got a
> sigsegv on the target system. Then I tried to compile
> helloworld.c with gcc -static. It crashed too.

This will not work. Glibc is not really doing what you think it might
do when you talk about "static linking".

Sorry, but ELDK 4.2 is a glibc environment for 2.6 kernels. It neither
supports linking for / running in a uClibc based environment nor with
a 2.4 kernel.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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