Re: relocating the compiler and associated tools

[Daniel Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Jim Tison wrote:
> Dan, I've gotta respectfully disagree with you ... later versions of gcc
> don't seem to be compiling in any less path information

I don't disagree!  I heard, though, that they will do
a runtime fixup on the paths.  I ought to dig up the patch that
added it (around gcc-2.96 or so?) ... but might not have time to...

> I also liked the chroot jail idea. For some reason (like maybe I'm old
> and my brain is brittle?), I'd never thought of that before. Will need
> to mull that one over to see if there's a way to make that work
> consistently -- can you really build like that without bootstrapping
> from zero? What a neat way that would be to build embedded systems at
> /usr (and other places you wouldn't consider on your build platform)!!

Yup!   And I do bootstrap from zero inside the chroot,
i.e. I run crosstool inside it.  It Just Works.
- Dan

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