[PATCH] Add --with-sdkdir flag for controlling target library installation location

[Jeff Johnston]

Oh well, that idea was just off the top of my head.

I guess you will have to post what problem you are specifically attempting to solve to gcc-list or
binutils-list and continue the discussion there.  They can determine the best way to solve it with minimal disruption of
the configuration files.

Looking at your diagrams below, I'm not sure why you can't just use a link to solve your problem outside of the build, but
I don't know the whole story and perhaps you have already considered it.

-- Jeff J.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Roelofs" <jonathan@codesourcery.com>
To: "Jeff Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
Cc: newlib@sourceware.org
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:24:47 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --with-sdkdir flag for controlling target library installation location



On 1/26/15 3:11 PM, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> This is a global change that applies a change to all target libraries (i.e. not just newlib) since the top-level
> configure.ac needs to be kept in sync with other projects that share it (binutils/gcc).   You need to propose any such
> change to all the lists (binutils and gcc).
Ok.
>
> That said, I think the change could definitely be cleaner.  For example, you could make the option:
> --with-target-noncanonical which would be easier for others to understand.  Then, you could either override
> the target_noncanonical value or not in one place (as opposed to changing everything to use sdk_dir).
There's a subtle difference here between what I'm calling the 'sdk_dir' 
and what 'target_noncanonical' means. It is also important to note that 
I'm not replacing *all* uses of 'target_noncanonical' with 'sdk_dir'. 
Several of the uses of 'target_noncanonical' that are not replaced in 
this patch assume that it is structured like a target triple, which is 
not necessarily true of an 'sdk_dir'. For example, I would like to 
specify something like: `configure --target arm-none-eabi 
--with-sdkdir=SDKs/baremetal_arm`, and end up with $prefix containing this:

.
├── SDKs
│   └── baremetal_arm
│       ├── include
│       │   └── ...
│       └── lib
│           └── ...
└── share
     └── info
         └── ...

Whereas it currently looks like this:

.
├── arm-none-eabi
│   ├── include
│   │   └── ...
│   └── lib
│       └── ...
└── share
     └── info
         └── ...

With that in mind, is there a better way I should be structuring my patch?


Cheers,

Jon

>
> -- Jeff J.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Roelofs" <jonathan@codesourcery.com>
> To: newlib@sourceware.org
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 8:03:44 PM
> Subject: [PATCH] Add --with-sdkdir flag for controlling target library installation location
>
> The backstory is that I'd like to be able to have newlib install target
> libraries in a directory other than the one named after the target
> triple, so I can customize the layout of my toolchain's sysroots.
>
> 2015-01-19  Jonathan Roelofs  <jonathan@codesourcery.com>
>
> 	* configure.ac: Add new flag: --with-sdkdir=.
> 	* configure: Regenerate.
>

-- 
Jon Roelofs
jonathan@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery / Mentor Embedded