How does --with-sysroot work?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:15:50AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I tried --with-sysroot. But it doesn't work right for me if I run
> gcc/ld in the build directory. The problem is both gcc/ld will change
> sysroot to $(target_alias) under the build directory. But it is not
> the sysroot at all. I will see what I can do.

Please be more precise with how you configured.  That's not enough
information to say anything.

The sysroot, at least for GCC, is relocated at runtime iff it is a
subdirectory of $exec_prefix and it exists.  Using
$exec_prefix/$target_alias is not a good choice.  Then the compiler
will look for $target_alias/usr/include, not $target_alias/include.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer