Re: [PATCH] Updated NPTL toolchain patch...

[Daniel Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Jean-Christophe Dubois wrote:
> However, it seems I found another way to have the overall crosstool.sh
> script to succeed on my system. For all "gcc" configure phase (3 places
> in the crosstool script), I am "forcing" the as/ld binaries to use the
> following way (patch attached).
>
>         --with-gnu-as \
>         --with-as=${PREFIX}/bin/${TARGET}-as \
>         --with-gnu-ld \
>         --with-ld=${PREFIX}/bin/${TARGET}-ld \
>
> Without this it looks like somewhere the wrong assembler or linker is
> chosen (on solaris) by the generated cross-compilers. Does this look bad
> or acceptable? How do you feel about it?
>
> This allows the script to complete successfully on Solaris (and I guess
> on any other platform). I still have to test the resulting tool chain
> though.

It's a fine idea.  Could you
repeat your diff against a clean copy of crosstool?
You seem to have a lot of extra stuff in your patch.

I might prefer to put those extra options in a shell
variable if they get referenced a lot of places,
and add a comment explaining why they're needed.
- Dan


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