Re: [Mingw-users] ld not configured to use sysroots

[NightStrike <nig...@gm...>]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Ronald Pijnacker <pij...@ds...> wrote:
> To quote NightStrike:
>
>   > When you configure binutils, use the --with-sysroot option.  This is
>   > how binutils (and gcc) should pretty much always be built these days,
>   > with the current configury system that is present in sourceware's top
>   > level configure.  You point binutils to the location of the sysroot,
>   > and you get bonus points if the sysroot is equal to or decendent from
>   > your prefix.
>
> This isn't true then? I understand from this that it doesn't hurt to specify
> --with-sysroot if it is the same as --prefix.

Sysroots aren't just for cross compiling anymore.  The new configury
setups have a lot of functionality to support things like completely
relocatable toolchains and other nice features (as you are
discovering) that are outside of a cross-compiling dependency.  I
don't ever build non-crossing toolchains anymore without using
sysroots (and to that, I always set sysroot == prefix).

For clarity, the sysroot is the root directory at which the tools will
search for system headers and libraries.