[Bug ld/23727] ld with custom sysroot ignores original rpath

[nehaljw.kkd1 at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23727

Nehal J Wani <nehaljw.kkd1 at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Nehal J Wani <nehaljw.kkd1 at gmail dot com> ---
I read through the conversation on the mailing list.

Further observations:
 - If I do add -Wl,-rpath-link,$PWD/libs the link succeeds. 
 - If I use the gold linker, the link succeeds. -Wl,-fuse-ld=gold

If you think that not searching out of the sysroot at all is the correct
behavior, then why is it restricted only to -rpath and not applied to
-rpath-link? Why is the behavior of the cross gold linker different?

My use case is simple. I want to cross compile let's say libssh2 for a target
architecture and I have the libcrypto.so and libz.so dependencies already
compiled for the target architecture kept in /path/to/some/prefix/libs. While
compiling libssh2, I want to link against those libraries. Why am I expected to
keep them in the sysroot always? Does it not defeat the whole purpose of having
-rpath in the first place? Does this not seem like a valid use case?

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