Re: --with-sysroot not in gcc-3.3.x?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:43:46AM -0800, Jim Wilson wrote:
> 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! 

The patch has been proposed for 3.3.3.

> 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.

Actually I believe there was a goof merging documentation to the 3.3
branch.  Might be misremembering though.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer