Re: Relocatable binutils installs [1/2]

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Right now, LD will search for the ldscripts dir in "<binarypath>/../lib". 
> This means that if you take an installed binutils tree and move it, it won't
> find the ldscripts dir when run by hand; because LD is installed in
> $(exec_prefix)/bin/ld and ldscripts are installed in
> $(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)/lib/ldscripts.  There's another ld hardlink
> in $(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)/bin/ld, which can find the scripts
> (although it searches the installed absolute path first, tsk tsk).
>
> This patch uses the new make_relative_prefix in libiberty, moved there for
> this reason, to find the scripts directory.  This just adds an additional
> search path before the others.  I was going to remove the last fallback
> until I noticed the problem above; there might conceivably be someone
> relying on this...
>
> This OK?
I can't speak to whether your patch is ok, but I do
know your heart's in the right place :-)

I've been looking forward to relocatable binaries (in the RPM sense)
for some time.  It's a small touch, but a welcome one.
- Dan

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