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[Bug testsuite/36443] [4.3/4.4 Regression]: HOSTCC doesn't work with installed gcc



------- Comment #21 from mark at codesourcery dot com  2008-06-10 05:02 -------
Subject: Re:  [4.3/4.4 Regression]: HOSTCC doesn't work
 with installed gcc

hjl dot tools at gmail dot com wrote:

>>> --syroot supports libraries and headers.  Does it support
>>> assembler and linker?
>> Not as far as I know; --sysroot is about the target, not the host.
> 
> So setting GCC_EXEC_PREFIX is to support "make check" using
> non-system assembler and linker with gcc for a target which
> probably isn't a GNU target/OS. Am I correct?

Or which *is* a GNU target/OS, but isn't using an in-tree build of all 
the components -- like, for example, if you already have good versions 
of the cross tools around.


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