RE: another proposed crosstool project

["Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap at eros-os dot com>]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 17:07 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 06 May 2007 17:03, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 16:38 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >>> Simply knowing the architecture isn't enough, because you have no way to
> >>> know where the headers live in my tree (well, for my tree you might, but
> >>> not in general).
> >> 
> >>   They live in $prefix/include.  Don't see what the problem is.  What is
> >> "your" tree?  We're building a *cross*-compiler here.
> > 
> > "My" tree is the source tree for the operating system that we are
> > attempting to build the cross tools here.
> 
>   Then they live in the source tree's include dir, and you point the build
> process at it by providing either --with-sysroot or --with-headers.

Dave:

>From experience, this doesn't work. We are committed to using
--with-sysroot for other reasons, and --with-headers is (allegedly)
incompatible with --with-sysroot.

What we need to do in our case is put a temporary copy of the system
headers somewhere in the cross-tools build tree.

shap


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