powerpc-eabism, strategy for finding crt0.o

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

| On Apr 11, 2001, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> wrote:
| 
| > Geoff, powerpc-eabism targets use libgloss to deal with crt0.o. If I'm
| > going to get libstdc++-v3's testsuite working correctly with the
| > target, I'm going to have to find crt0.o so that it can be linked in
| > to resolve things like _start, and __eabi. I don't see an existent way
| > to do this, please correct me if I'm wrong.
| 
| I'm afraid you're right.  This had never been a problem because we had
| never needed link tests before.
| 
| dejagnu/lib/libgloss.exp has a hard-coded mapping from target triplets
| to libgloss subdirectory.  Ugh!

Right.  That always puzzled me!  Is there a real reason for that?

-- Gaby