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Re: Mainline bootstrap failure in libjava, i686-pc-linux-gnu
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
> On Apr 9, 2001, Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> wrote:
>
> > I still don't understand why we pass -B$prefix/lib to the compiler during
> > the build, /before/ we install anything in $prefix.
>
> Because the user may have already installed binutils there.
This seemed to make sense - at first sight. But now I don't get it.
If the user first builds and installs binutils, before building gcc,
why do we need $prefix/lib? Shouldn't the binutils be available in
$prefix/bin, not $prefix/lib? And the way to handle this case is to
make sure $prefix/bin is in the PATH.
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