[arm-gnu] Re: [Gnash-dev] glibc and bionic at same time

[raju goruganti <raju.goruganti@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob,

Yes, want to hack bionic libc.


Is it possible  to build binic libc(libc.so) as normal shared library,so
that I  can use it with the application, that build with other(arm)  tool
chain (for example codesorcery arm tool chain)??



On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Rob Savoye <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:46:01AM +0530, raju goruganti wrote:
>
> > we have our legacy system which is build with Glibc. Now we want to  run
> a
> > small application that is build with bionic libc .Is it possible to  run
> > ,some  applications build bith glibc and some other applications build
> with
> > bionic libc,at the same time on same target.Our goal is we use our main
> > application build which is build with Glibc and run android
> > application(bionic) from Main application.Or is there any other method to
> > support both bionic and Glibc .
>
>  No, glibc and bionic supply much of the same functionality, so you can't
> use
> both unless you do some *serious* glibc hacking. Most C apps should work
> fine
> with only bionic. Building with glibc and then trying to use bionic at
> runtime
> won't work either.
>
>  You don't really need bionic unless you want to access the lower level
> functionality in Android, like making a phone call. If you really want to
> run
> both, I'm available for toolchain consulting. :-)
>
>        - rob -
>
>