abilist problems

[Steven Munroe]

Roland McGrath writes:

 > Now that it's been pointed out, I've noticed that _nl_default_dirname
 > has bogus different sizes in the sh and powerpc64 lists I've been
 > sent. This must be from builds not using --prefix=/usr, and I don't
 > know any reason why that should be done.

The current Suse SLES 8 distro for PPC64 installs the 64-bit tool chain 
as /opt/cross/powerpc64-linux. As this is our current development 
platform we don't build PPC64 with --prefix=/usr.

So it is legitimate for --prefix(es), other then /usr, to be used and 
should be supported for check-abi.