Building cross development tools...

[Ian Lance Taylor]

   Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:28:43 -0500
   From: Scott Bambrough <scottb@netwinder.org>

   When I build binutils with --prefix=/usr --host=i586-unknown-linux-gnu
   --target=arm-linux on x86 and install I  get the following files
   installed:

   in /usr/include:
   ansidecl.h, bfd.h, bfdlink.h

   in /usr/lib:
   libiberty.a
   libbfd.a, libbfd.la
   libopcodes.a, libopcodes.la

   Is this correct?  Won't these screw up the native build and run
   environment?  I'm assuming I'm missing something, and I'd appreciate
   knowing what.

The files in /usr/include don't matter, because they are the same on
all systems.  Same with /usr/lib/libiberty.a.

The libbfd and libopcodes files are theoretically a problem.  For a
while I think we were installing those using a target name, but I
guess we stopped.  Very few programs expect to use the installed
libraries, so most people don't worry about this.  It would be worse
if you installed a shared library.

I would accept patches to install the libraries under a name which
included the target, provided they were well tested, particularly when
configuring with --enable-shared.

Ian