On Thursday 17 April 2008 04:04, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > What happened to the good old concept of looking up executables'
> > location in $PATH if they have no slashes on the name?
> >
> > (Oh well)^2. Recompiling with --with-as="/usr/bin/$CROSS-as"...
>
> Why do you think it's necessary to specify this?
I don't think that it is necessary. I find it useful.
It's useful in a following way:
if gcc will invoke as and ld by execvp("x86_64-linux-uclibc-as"...),
I can trivially fix all cases where it calls "wrong" as/ld
by either installing working one or changing the $PATH.
*I can do it without recompiling gcc or having to put as/ld in some
obscure multi-level directories* - this is what I like the most.
> Configure will
> automatically find and use $tooldir/bin/as (= $prefix/$target/bin/as) or
> $target-as in PATH.
Only in my case, $prefix contain neither as nor ld. gcc lives in
/usr/app/gcc-4.3.0-x86_64-linux-uclibc/*
while binutils lives in
/usr/app/binutils-2.18-x86_64-linux-uclibc/*
it's much better for sanity that way.
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vda
