On 25 Oct 2021 15:33, Richard Purdie wrote: > This patch renames the --with-sysroot option to --with-libtool-sysroot > to avoid namespace conflict with binutils, gcc and other toolchain > components since these componets also add that option to configure > and this becomes confusing and conflicting otherwise.
we're talking like 3 projects ? libtool is used & included in way more projects than that. it seems like --with-sysroot as a standard name to propagate out into the wider ecosystem makes more sense. i agree there's confusion between "use this path as a sysroot to compile and link against" and "have the compile tools target this sysroot". the same problem exists with host selection which is why we have the build, host, and target options. sounds like we want names that can align with these somehow. --with-libtool-sysroot doesn't make sense as it isn't an internal libtool setting, it's changing how executables are linked, and users (who run the configure scripts) don't know or care about this "libtool" thing. -mike
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