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Re: --with-sysroot not in gcc-3.3.x?

From: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>
To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>
Cc: Dan Kegel <dkegel at ixiacom dot com>, crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:43:46 -0800
Subject: Re: --with-sysroot not in gcc-3.3.x?
References: <200311041024.42158.ken.wolcott@med.ge.com> <200311051611.18448.ken.wolcott@med.ge.com> <3FA982D0.6080208@ixiacom.com> <200311051734.21840.ken.wolcott@med.ge.com> <3FAA0413.3010501@kegel.com>

Dan Kegel wrote:

I've been hearing about --with-sysroot for about a year, and it's even documented at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html, but tonight I finally went looking for it -- and it's not in gcc-3.3.2, as far as I can tell!

Gcc-3.3 branched on Dec 14, 2002, and it entered stage 3 during which no new features are supposed to be added on Oct 14, 2002. So yes, it is certainly possible that you have heard about the feature for over a year already but it is not in gcc-3.3.

Plus, you need to consider that patches for new functionality sometimes take months of discussion and reworking before they get accepted.

The sysroot patches were installed in February, which was too late by about 5 months for gcc-3.3.

You are right that there is a versioning problem with the install instructions though. I suspect that they are generated directly from the gcc/doc/install.texi file in the CVS repository, which means they are really only right for the curent development sources. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com


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