Re: specs file for 4.1.1

[Gerhard Theurich <gtheurich at sgi dot com>]

Thanks Dave, that explains it. Putting the specs file where it belongs sure 
helps :-). All is fine now. I filed a bug wrt the misleading paragraph in the 
faq. Thanks!
-Gerhard

Dave Murphy wrote:
> Gerhard Theurich wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I just installed the complete GCC 4.1.1 from source on a Linux-ia32 
> > machine. Since I did not install into a system default location I 
> > wanted to set the -rpath option in the specs file as it is mentioned 
> > in the faq (in order to encode the correct seach path for the loader). 
> > So I added a file named "specs" into the same directory where cc1 is 
> > located (as per instruction in the faq). However, the specs I define 
> > in this file are _not_ picked up by any of the front-ends. In fact 
> > "gcc --print-file specs" does not return a path, just "specs". What's 
> > going on? Thanks,
> > -Gerhard
> Isn't it supposed to go in lib/<target>/<gcc version>/specs ?
>
> I just tried this with a cross compiler and it seems to work. Somewhere 
> in the 4.x docs it states that you need to dump the internal specs file 
> if you want to edit it. I can't seem to find that note atm :/
>
> davem@NEUROMANCER ~
> $ arm-eabi-gcc --print-file specs
> specs
>
> davem@NEUROMANCER ~
> $ arm-eabi-gcc -dumpspecs > 
> /e/devkitPro_test/devkitARM/lib/gcc/arm-eabi/4.1.1/specs
>
> davem@NEUROMANCER ~
> $ arm-eabi-gcc --print-file specs
> e:/devkitpro_test/devkitarm/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-eabi/4.1.1/specs
>
> Dave