PATCH: --sysroot-suffix

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:46:28PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > Apple were interested in using it for native toolchains, however.  Plus
> > the restriction is one of those things that is awkward to document. 
> > Can you explain why there was a problem?
> 
> I never tried it for native configurations, so I don't know for sure
> that there is a problem.  But I was worried if we didn't have this
> restriction, people would expect passing --sysroot=/foo to a non-
> sysrooted toolchain to have exactly the same meaning as configuring
> with --with-sysroot=/foo.  That isn't going to be true without further
> surgery because --with-sysroot affects the default search path.  (see
> ld/genscripts.sh, for example.)

You're right - it won't work without further surgery.  Hmm.  It should
not be too hard to fix that.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz