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

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Sunday 04 October 2009 22:43:07 NightStrike wrote:
> >   > 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.

Well, this is a direct contradiction of *current* GCC installation 
instructions; http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html says:
| ...
| Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
|
| The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
|
| --with-sysroot
| --with-sysroot=dir
|   Tells GCC to consider dir as the root of a tree that contains a 
|   (subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
|   ...

Rather meaningless, really, in the context of a native build.

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Regards,
Keith.