Re: [RFT PATCH v4 0/8] Sysroot series

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Charles,

* Charles Wilson wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 06:06:14PM CEST:
> configure:2917: checking whether the C compiler works
> configure:2939: gcc --sysroot=/tmp/sysroot   conftest.c  >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Err...ooops.
> 
> $ ld --sysroot=/bob
> ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots
> 
> 
> Well. That sux.

Yep.  :-/

> I wonder what would happen if you built a (native) toolchain with
> sysroot support, but with the default "sysroot" == "/"?  OTOH, if you're
> gonna go thru the trouble of specially building an entire toolchain just
> to ensure that the sysroot support in libtool gets tested, you might as
> well do it using an actual *cross* compiler with sysroot support.

True.

> Quick poll: does anybody's (linux) system 'ld' support the --sysroot
> option?  To find out, just run 'ld --sysroot=/bob'

I've tried my half dozen systems now, none of them do, not even the
Debian MinGW cross ld.

Thank you for investing the work in this.  If you're really motivated,
then it would still be nice to have such a test, but obviously it's not
a big help, so might as well skip that then.

Cheers,
Ralf (makes a note to create a decent cross setup for regular testing)