These are the critical internal libs from gcc needed in order to bootstrap new glibc shared libs. It's merely a precompiled version of gcc. Note, for glibc-2.26 and later we need gcc-6. How was this tarball generated? * Collect current stage3 autobuilds, ideally for amd64, mips, ppc, s390, x86 (but in practice the stable subset will do) * Copy files from, e.g., /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.4.0/ to amd64 The full list of directory names is: amd64 n32 n64 o32 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x x32 x86 * At the end run ./Cleanup to remove everything that is not needed Current status: * amd64, x32, x86: Files from gcc-6.4 * s390, s390x: Files from gcc-5.4 (does this work?) * ppc, ppc64: no files, since only gcc-4.9 available * n32, n64, o32: last mips stages are years old, not useful