[Linuxppc-users] Runtime dependencies

[Ben Hood]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018, at 19:30, Michael Meissner wrote:
 
> Yes.  In general, the Advance Toolchain libraries are newer than the
> distribution libraries.  If something was compiled against the AT headers, they
> might reference things that don't exist in the distribution libraries.

That's good to know.
 
> > Or is it possible (if sensible) to use the default libc/libm of the target machine?
> 
> You might cobble something together that may work most of the time, but in
> general you want to install at least the runtimes package on the remote system.

OK, it's sounds like it's more idiomatic (and potentially less buggy) to use the the AT runtime on the target machine.

> You may/may not also want to install the perf libraries if you intend to run
> the performance tools like operf.  You may also want to install the
> mcore-libraries package which contains additional runtimes like boost, sphde,
> etc.

I hadn't even thought of the performance tools - many thanks for the pointers on all of the above.