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+Adding uClibc support for a new platform
+
+Sometimes you want to cross-compile to another architecture, for example an
+embedded devices. For embedded devices the uClibc C library is popular.
+In Nixpkgs there is support for uClibc for several architectures but not
+everything is supported.
+
+Adding support is not very difficult, 
+
+* Add your architecture to the buildfiles in
+$nixpkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils-cross
+
+* Add your architecture to the buildfiles in
+$nixpkgs/development/compilers/gcc-4.0-cross
+
+* Add your architecture to the buildfiles in
+$nixpkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel-headers-cross
+
+* Add your architecture to the buildfiles in
+$nixpkgs/development/uclibc
+
+In the latter directory you will also need a configuration file for uClibc.
+You can make these by unpacking the uClibc sources and run a "make menuconfig".
+In the configuration a few things need to be adapted:
+
+- kernel sources -> need to point at our own kernel headers
+- install -> needs to point at $out