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Re: Mainline bootstrap failure in libjava, i686-pc-linux-gnu
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Subject: Re: Mainline bootstrap failure in libjava, i686-pc-linux-gnu
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- Date: 09 Apr 2001 13:51:51 -0700
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010406193001.A1583@codesourcery.com> <m2ae5t5l6l.fsf@kelso.bothner.com> <20010407144434.A19734@klomp.org> <20010409165731.E31897@disaster.jaj.com>
Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:
> I still don't understand why we pass -B$prefix/lib to the compiler during
> the build, /before/ we install anything in $prefix. I've been told that
> this is the Right Thing To Do, but I remain skeptical. :-(
It's so that libraries that are installed in $prefix/lib are found. Otherwise,
if you have a newlib install in $prefix/lib and you try to build the compiler
by itself, it'll fail to build because it can't find the libraries.
Now, that's one thing, but it should not be _preferring_ those
libraries over the versions that we have just built...
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>