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Re: State-of-the-art in cross-platform Glibc testing?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Brooks Moses <bmoses at google dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:41:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: State-of-the-art in cross-platform Glibc testing?
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"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> I sort of think that the glibc build process should install things into a
> sysroot directory within the build directory that mirrors a standard glibc
> installation, so that "make install" would then just deal with copying
> that directory's contents to the given install_root. This would simplify
> running programs with the build-tree libraries and make that more like
> doing so with any libc installation not in the root directory;
That wouldn't simplify much, since you still have to relocate all
references to $prefix, in the same way as it is currently being done.
Andreas.
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