cross compiler install problem (more info)

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199711282100.QAA18794@altera.gaithersburg.md.us >you write:
  > Here are some more details.
  > 
  > A bunch of symlinks to ./libiberty/libiberty.a are made early in the
  > build process:
When/where?  I don't know when this happens, so it's hard for me to go 
track the code down and see what it's really supposed to be doing.

  > 
  >     -rw-rw-r-- ./libiberty/libiberty.a
  >     lrwxrwxrwx ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/soft-float/common/libiberty/libiberty.
  > a -> ../../../../libiberty/libiberty.a
  >     lrwxrwxrwx ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/soft-float/power/libiberty/libiberty.a
  >  -> ../../../../libiberty/libiberty.a
  >     lrwxrwxrwx ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/soft-float/powerpc/libiberty/libiberty
  > .a -> ../../../../libiberty/libiberty.a
  >     lrwxrwxrwx ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/soft-float/libiberty/libiberty.a -> ..
  > /../../libiberty/libiberty.a
  >     lrwxrwxrwx ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/common/libiberty/libiberty.a -> ../../
  > ../libiberty/libiberty.a
  >     lrwxrwxrwx ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/power/libiberty/libiberty.a -> ../../.
  > ./libiberty/libiberty.a
  >     lrwxrwxrwx ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/powerpc/libiberty/libiberty.a -> ../..
  > /../libiberty/libiberty.a
  >     -rw-rw-r-- ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/libiberty/libiberty.a
  > 
  > It looks like the symlinks should point at
  > ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/libiberty/libiberty.a, not
  > ./libiberty/libiberty.a.  In fact, it looks like
  > ./rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/libiberty/libiberty.a is originally a symlink,
  > but it gets clobbered when the cross-library is made:
Hmmm, looks like a problem in the native multilib support to me; hell
if I know how to fix it :(

jeff