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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:15:40 +0100
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:23:40 +0200
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote:
>
>> However, instead of installing the =E2=80=98glibc=E2=80=99 package, you =
may want to
>> install the =E2=80=98gcc-toolchain=E2=80=99 package, which provides all =
the tools needed
>> to do software development (GCC, libc, Binutils, the =E2=80=98ld wrapper=
=E2=80=99, etc.)
>
> I tried that now - that works fine.=20
>
> Why can I install glibc (when it doesn't work anyway)? What's the differe=
nce?

The most important difference is the linker wrapper (=E2=80=9Cld-wrapper=E2=
=80=9D),
which makes sure -Wl,-rpath is passed for each library against which we
link.

> Is it documented?

Not yet, but you can help!  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.