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Re: PATCH: --sysroot-suffix
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> I've got some patches to add the --sysroot option that Daniel suggests,
> but I've been sitting on them waiting for gcc to enter stage 1 (or for
> the 2.16 release process to kick off, whichever was sooner).
I don't understand the wait on the binutils patches, but (no
surprise) I should way I like this.
> Might be missing the point here, but in the patches below, gcc will only
> handle --sysroot=/-fsysroot= correctly if the linker also understands
> --sysroot=. It seemed like a reasonable restriction at the time
> but I'd be interested to know what others think.
With that, I see no problem at all.
I do see a problem that this patch seems to require that the
tools were configured with --with-sysroot=.
Am I misunderstanding? If not, can this restriction be lifted?
brgds, H-P