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

[Geoff Keating]

Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:

> I still don't understand why we pass -B$prefix/lib to the compiler during
> the build, /before/ we install anything in $prefix.  I've been told that
> this is the Right Thing To Do, but I remain skeptical.  :-(

It's so that libraries that are installed in $prefix/lib are found.  Otherwise,
if you have a newlib install in $prefix/lib and you try to build the compiler
by itself, it'll fail to build because it can't find the libraries.

Now, that's one thing, but it should not be _preferring_ those
libraries over the versions that we have just built...

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>