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Re: Where should libiberty.a be installed?
On 3 Jun 2008, at 16:53, Brian Dessent wrote:
IainS wrote:
That way the user can keep track of which version is being linked.
But you're missing the point: this copy that is installed is the
host-libiberty not the target-libiberty. No code that gcc creates
will
use this library, it is totally extraneous and you can just delete
it if
it bothers you. I think it's just an artifact of the fact that gcc
lives in a combined tree of many other packages, and the toplevel is
shared between all of them.
hm.
when building the native tools (host=build=target) it's sometimes
difficult to tell things apart
I have perhaps, been misled by the following;
I'm also building cross-tools:
The cross-build [make install] installs a *target* libiberty in /usr/
target-vendor-os/lib
So I was assuming that the libiberty installed in /usr/lib was (by
symmetry) the "target" libiberty for the target=host case.
I don't mind that much - whether I delete or move the library ;
It seems we all agree it doesn't belong where it's being put.
perhaps the real question is
"should gcc install libiberty?"
Iain