Matt Burgess wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:58 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Pierre Labastie wrote:
>>
>>> I have not tried to add /tools to a LIBRARY_PATH, because I am
>>> (maybe wrongly) worried about linking to a libraries which are
>>> then removed.
>> I think that is a needless worry.  gcc uses LIBRARY_PATH so it can get 
>> the linkages, but when running, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable and the 
>> ld.so.cache is used to find the library for running.
>>
>>>>    We could also move xz to be before GRUB.
>>> Not tried either, but this should work
> 
> My preference would be to move xz to before GRUB.  Ever since the
> original work went in to splitting chapter 5 and chapter 6 up, we've
> tried to keep things in chapter 6 from linking to anything in /tools if
> at all possible.  I realise that in this case, it shouldn't make a
> difference, as GRUB isn't actually invoked until chapter 8, at which
> point chapter 6's xz is obviously available, but it just doesn't sit
> right with me that we're going to be explicitly trying to get it to
> build against something in /tools.

OK, I was just trying to provide alternatives.  Switching the order is 
pretty trivial.  Be sure to update the dependencies.

   -- Bruce
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