On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:56:32 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hazel Russman wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:23:42 -0500 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >  
> >> Hazel Russman wrote:  
> >>> The test "grep -o '/usr/lib.*/crt[1in].*succeeded' dummy.log"
> >>> yields a different result for 64-bit systems. The path to these
> >>> files is "/usr/lib/../lib64" rather than "/usr/lib".
> >>>
> >>> Earlier editions of the book made this explicit but the 7.9 edition
> >>> doesn't.  
> >>
> >>
> >> "Depending on your machine architecture, the above may differ
> >> slightly, the difference usually being the name of the directory
> >> after /usr/lib/gcc. If your machine is a 64-bit system, you may also
> >> see a directory named lib64 towards the end of the string. The
> >> important thing to look for here is that gcc has found all three
> >> crt*.o files under the /usr/lib directory."
> >>
> >> Looks the same to me.  
> >
> > That's precisely the text I remember reading before, but I can't find
> > it any more! I am talking about the page on adjusting the toolchain in
> > 7.9 stable. It *does* mention the difference in the loader name but not
> > the pathname difference.  
> 
> It's on the gcc page in Chapter 6.
> 
>    -- Bruce
Yes, I've found it now. But that page comes later, so I think the text ought to 
be moved back to the adjustment section, which is where the crt*.o tests are 
first carried out. 

Hazel
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