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Re: introduce configure --with-sysroot
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 22 Aug 2002 23:18:01 -0300
- Subject: Re: introduce configure --with-sysroot
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0208222144530.65149-100000@dair.pair.com>
On Aug 22, 2002, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> wrote:
> On 22 Aug 2002, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> This patch introduces --with-sysroot=<tree>, intended to deprecate
>> --with-headers and --with-libs, that tells GCC to copy the specified
>> <tree> into its install tree and use that as the root of the target
>> system.
> Nice. It would be even nicer if there was a means to avoid the
> copying, when sysroot has already been populated by other means.
Hmm... If the directory already exists, and contains a file named
COPIED that contains the directory specified as the argument to
--with-sysroot, the copy is skipped. Just like --with-headers and
--with-libs.
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