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Re: PATCH: --sysroot-suffix
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:53:48PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> OK, the concensus seemed to be that a --sysroot flag was worth having,
> and that it would be nice to support it on non-sysrooted linkers too,
> but that it wasn't necessary for the first cut.
>
> Here's a cleaned-up version of the patch, this time with docs and
> NEWS item. Tested on mips-linux-gnu. OK to install?
There seems to be plenty of precedent for --argument=value in GNU ld,
but the documentation says:
Arguments to multiple-letter options must either be
separated from the option name by an equals sign, or be given as
separate arguments immediately following the option that
requires them. For example, --trace-symbol foo and
--trace-symbol=foo are equivalent. Unique abbreviations of
the names of multiple-letter options are accepted.
I always use the space, personally, so I'd be pretty confused by the
dummy option handling; how about supporting that too?
I'm somewhat surprised the hack is necessary, but I'm sure you're right
:-)
As a first cut to fix the configury option, we could always enable
sysroots for native tools. Right now the differences in linker script
generation are only the addition of the '=' marker, the use of
NATIVE_LIB_DIRS (already enabled for natives), and something
complicated for $(tooldir) that I can't quite remember the purpose
of...
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Daniel Jacobowitz