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cross toolchain vs. info files
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:45:10 -0000
- Subject: cross toolchain vs. info files
Afternoon all!
When we build and install a cross binutils, $prefix/man gets a whole load of
man pages all prefixed with the target - i.e.
$prefix/man/man1/$target-{ar,as,ld,...}.
OTOH, the info files installed to $prefix/info aren't prefixed with the
target.
This means that 1) you can't look them up by "info $target-$utilityname" (it
brings you the related manpage instead) and 2) they may override (or be
overridden by) the info files for your main system tools, which can be a bit
of a snag if they are built from different binutils versions.
Does anyone know why this is? Is there some problem that I can't see?
Would it be possible to get "make install" to prepend the target prefix while
it's copying the files across? Would that be all that was needed?
cheers,
DaveK
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