[Bug ld/12478] New: discrepancy between 'ld.1' file and 'configure'

[sergstesh at yahoo dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12478

           Summary: discrepancy between 'ld.1' file and 'configure'
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.21
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
        AssignedTo: address@hidden
        ReportedBy: address@hidden


As I'm reading

man /mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/install/binutils-2.21/share/man/man1/ld.1

, I see among other things:

    859        --sysroot=directory
    860            Use directory as the location of the sysroot, overriding the
configure-time default.  This option is only supported by linkers that were
configured
    861            using --with-sysroot.

, i.e. the manpage effectively claims there is '--with-sysroot' 'configure'
option.

OTOH, the following is true:

"
address@hidden:~> /mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/build/binutils-2.21/configure
--help | grep sysroot
  --with-build-sysroot=SYSROOT
                          use sysroot as the system root during the build
address@hidden:~> 
",

i.e. 'configure' provides '--with-build-sysroot' and _not_ '--with-sysroot'
option.

So, I do not know the meaning of 'configure' option and I don't know how to
achieve the advertised in 'ld.1' file functionality WRT sysroot.

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