Re: [PATCH] Fine control sysroot runtime behavior.

[Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Benda Xu wrote:
> This is a rebase of patch submitted in
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/63137
>
> to the HEAD of git repository.
>
> Patch updated for the Changelog entries and for regeneration with
> autoconf and autoheader.

Just a few comments, having been in this area in the last months
(and likely causing your rebase conflicts, sorry).

I think you're going to need a little bit more than a straight
rebase-with-conflict-resolution for this to do something
well-defined.  For example, as your patch stands, I would guess
it will fail a "make check-ld" when --disable-runtime-sysroot
(either or both with/without --with-sysroot=Y) specifically
running the sysroot tests.  It seems you're not disabling
--sysroot=X as a run-time option as would be truthful the name
of the option.  Your patch just touches the static ELF-specific
paths (IIUC) and the predicate that tells whether a file is
found in the sysroot.  Thus, --sysroot=X will be accepted and
all X prepended through "=" will be found but wrongly be thought
to be outside the sysroot, still --print-sysroot will emit the
specified directory.  I'm not sure that makes sense other than
it happening to work for you.

Are you using --disable-runtime-sysroot --with-sysroot=Y as just
specifying some kind of alternative installation point, sort of
(but not exactly) like --prefix=Y?  Maybe instead introduce an
appropriately named option to do exactly that.

If not, I suggest you tell us the "user story" as it's unclear
why the full --sysroot functionality is wrong for the
intended use.

brgds, H-P