Re: [PATCH] Add missing sysroot resolution

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:55:44AM CEST:
> On 10/09/2010 10:51 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:43:12AM CEST:
> >>I'm applying this patch since it's pretty obvious.

> >Is this fixing (part) of the reported bug?
> 
> Lionel pointed us to the patch, so I assumed it fixed all of it.  I
> still haven't built his stuff.  It looks really interesting, as does
> OpenEmbedded, and it's really cool that the sysroot feature is
> already getting this much exposure.  I was worried that it would
> remain confined in the "unused feature" limbo and would bitrot.
> 
> It's also nice because it shows that these people _are_
> autoreconfing/relibtoolizing as part of their build systems.  It
> gives me much more confidence on the backwards-compatibility of
> libtool 2.4!

Indeed!  Good you say this (all of the above), because I forgot to
mention any of it.

> >Do you know how to expose it, so we can cover it in the testsuite?
> 
> Not yet, I'll look into it next week.  I need to build Lionel's
> recipe and then distill a testcase.

Cool.  Thanks.

> >For future sysroot patches, feel free to also (or first) commit them to
> >the sysroot branch and merge them to master.
> 
> Ok, I was undecided about the status of the sysroot branch.

Oh, I don't care much either way, but as long as we're still fixing
things with, might as well document the fixes on the branch.  For some
kind of future code-archeology niceness or so.  ;-)

Cheers,
Ralf