mips elf n32 and 64 linker emulparams refactoring

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 18, 2002, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Oct 18, 2002, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>> 
>> >> +LIB_PATH=/usr/lib32
>> 
>> > How will this work in a cross-compile environment?
>> 
>> It won't.  Typically, the compiler overrides these anyway.

> Oh, ok, so this is a missing feature in GLD in general.

It could be argued so.  From some earlier discussions about the
--with-sysroot patch for GCC, I got the impression that Daniel
Jacobowitz might have something for ld that would get ld smarter in
this sense.  Dan, is this true?

> Please note that /lib32:/usr/lib32 is better to find e.g. libc.
> (IRIX has symlinks, but other systems probably not).

Fixed below.

> GLD was/is not regularily in use on IRIX, so I guess cross compilation
> therre was only little used if at all.

Indeed.

> Then at least the path should be disabled for cross builds (as in
> e.g. elf64ppc.sh) to reduce confusion.

Thanks for the pointer.  I fixed a typo in it, and adopted some of the
code for mips n32 and elf64 too.  This is what I came up with.  Ok to
install?

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