On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:46:17PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> On 2018-08-10 10:20 -0400, Seth Turner wrote:
> >
> > In the final running system, in /usr/bin there are two copies of several
> > files. These files are c++, g++, gcc, gcc-7.3.0, gcc-ar, gcc-nm, and
> > gcc-ranlib
> >
> > One copy is just the filenames as I would expect, the other copy has
> > "i686-pc-linux-gnu" prefixed to the beginning of each of the filenames.:
> > i686-pc-linux-gnu-c++, i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++, i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc,
> > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-7.3.0, i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-ar,
> > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-nm, and i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-ranlib
> >
> > During one build I tried to manually edit the makefiles after running
> > ./config to change the i686-pc-linux-gnu to i686-lfs-linux-gnu, but that
> > failed pretty spectacularly.
> >
> > Is this what is supposed to happen? Can one set be safely removed? Is
> > there a way to ./configure to give pass 2 the same filenames as pass 1?
[...]
>
> GCC install some programs with host triplet (the i686-pc-linux-gnu-* in
> final system). AFAIK they can be removed.
They should be hardlinks, i.e. using the same inode, so on a linux
filesystem they take no extra space and therefore removing them has
no benefit.
ĸen
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