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Re: Mainline bootstrap failure in libjava, i686-pc-linux-gnu
On Apr 10, 2001, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> This seemed to make sense - at first sight. But now I don't get it.
> If the user first builds and installs binutils, before building gcc,
> why do we need $prefix/lib? Shouldn't the binutils be available in
> $prefix/bin, not $prefix/lib?
Ok, so let me try the long version.
We recommend people to create links to binutils within
lib/<triplet>/<GCCver> if binutils are installed elsewhere.
> And the way to handle this case is to
> make sure $prefix/bin is in the PATH.
PATH is only used to search for as and ld if they aren't found in any
of the directories in the programs search path (gcc
-print-search-dirs).
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