RE: Gcc calling wrong assembler

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grant Edwards [mailto:grante@visi.com]
>Sent: 14 August 2001 16:33


>Right.  I had left out the /usr/local/arm-elf/ files when I
>configured the RPM spec file, so they didn't get installed on
>my test machine.  I was convinced that at one time I had a
>working installation without binaries in /usr/local/arm-elf/bin.
>
>Probably not.

>For some reason, I thought that the files in
>/usr/local/arm-elf/ were left over from a previous botched
>install of binutils done with --prefix=/usr/local/arm-elf.  I
>had to beat my head against a wall for most of the day before I
>realized that the binaries are expected to be in two places.

  God only knows, at this stage, what setup you had and how it worked.  The
tendency of binutils to leave all these bits and pieces lying around can
sometimes cause things to work that shouldn't because some spare version
of a needed tool with a different name just happens to be at the right place
in the path.  (And if you ever want to see things going soooo wrong, try
putting /usr/local/arm-elf/bin at the front of your path rather than at the
end!)

 [ re --with-as= ]

>Ah, So it is possible!

  Should be, although being one of the less commonly used features of gcc,
it might easily be flaky or broken in some of the cross targets.

>I think I'll leave things in the normal configuration. Since
>I'm going to be distributing binary RPM files, I should make
>things as standard as possible.

  I always advise people for the sake of simplicity and less headaches to
let the package do it's own thing to the greatest extent possible and leave
as much as possible the standard default setup.  It gets into a right old
mess if gcc and binutils are configured with different --prefix= settings,
and I imagine the same would happen with the program-suffix and -prefix 
options too...  



       DaveK
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been able to alleviate the misery and torture of endless centuries of
world poverty." - George Hammond, self-proclaimed discoverer of the 
scientific proof of god.


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