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Re: --with-sysroot not in gcc-3.3.x?
- From: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>
- To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>
- Cc: Dan Kegel <dkegel at ixiacom dot com>, crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:43:46 -0800
- Subject: Re: --with-sysroot not in gcc-3.3.x?
- References: <200311041024.42158.ken.wolcott@med.ge.com> <200311051611.18448.ken.wolcott@med.ge.com> <3FA982D0.6080208@ixiacom.com> <200311051734.21840.ken.wolcott@med.ge.com> <3FAA0413.3010501@kegel.com>
Dan Kegel wrote:
I've been hearing about --with-sysroot for about a year, and it's
even documented at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html,
but tonight I finally went looking for it -- and it's not in
gcc-3.3.2, as far as I can tell!
Gcc-3.3 branched on Dec 14, 2002, and it entered stage 3 during which no
new features are supposed to be added on Oct 14, 2002. So yes, it is
certainly possible that you have heard about the feature for over a year
already but it is not in gcc-3.3.
Plus, you need to consider that patches for new functionality sometimes
take months of discussion and reworking before they get accepted.
The sysroot patches were installed in February, which was too late by
about 5 months for gcc-3.3.
You are right that there is a versioning problem with the install
instructions though. I suspect that they are generated directly from
the gcc/doc/install.texi file in the CVS repository, which means they
are really only right for the curent development sources.
--
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com