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Re: Updates to --with-sysroot support

From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
To: zack at codesourcery dot com
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, aoliva at redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:51:28 -0800
Subject: Re: Updates to --with-sysroot support
References: <20021104165729.GA9266@nevyn.them.org> <20021105072939.GC10353@egil.codesourcery.com>

> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:29:39 -0800
> From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>

> Am I correct in thinking that for a normal Unix native compiler, you
> could set sysroot to "/usr" and get the expected behavior?  Or is it
> prepended to $prefix?  Or what?

You'd sysroot to '/'.

The idea is that for crosses, you can NFS-mount '/' on the target
system and point the sysroot at the place where it's mounted, and your
cross will have all the libraries and headers it needs.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>

References:
- Updates to --with-sysroot support
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: Updates to --with-sysroot support
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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