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Re: [RFC/RFA] --with-build-time-tools configure option
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch>
- Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:01:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] --with-build-time-tools configure option
- References: <43BACEDC.10302@lu.unisi.ch> <43BCF0F6.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43BCE4D2.40505@lu.unisi.ch>
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:20:18AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> I am not sure, because the purpose of this patch was to do the tests on
> the same tools that GCC will use after installation -- and GCC only uses
> as/ld/nm. I think that if you want ar and ranlib placed somewhere else,
> you'd need to specify the new --with-build-time-tools options.
>
> If we want to decide that $prefix/$target/bin is an interesting place to
> look for tools, it's fine by me but this should also apply to host
> tools, and should be coordinated with the Autoconf folks (which, sorry
> to say, means that likely it will never be done).
Why should it be coordinated with autoconf or apply to host tools?
Perfect is the enemy of good - and we have more trouble finding target
tools than we do finding host tools. We have ar, as, ld, nm, objdump,
ranlib, and strip available in that directory when GNU binutils is
installed; I think we should use them uniformly.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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