Mainline bootstrap failure in libjava, i686-pc-linux-gnu

[Alexandre Oliva]

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.

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