State-of-the-art in cross-platform Glibc testing?

[Andreas Schwab]

"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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