whither specs?

[H. J. Lu]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:26:56PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> ...jumping back to an old conversation (because Gerald's recent
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH mail reminded me of it...)
> 
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:49:15PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
>  > DT_RPATH is tricky with cross compiling. I don't want it in gcc.
> 
> It's not that tricky ... you just need to use -rpath-link in addition
> to -rpath if the compiler is a cross-compiler, right?  Okay, maybe it's
> a little tricky because of the $prefix/$target/lib/... stuff that is
> the GNU toolchain's convention...
> 
> But it seems like this would no longer be a problem because of the
> --with-sysroot stuff on 3.4-b-i-b.

I don't like -R for many reasons. One of them is

# ls -d /usr/gcc*
/usr/gcc-3.2  /usr/gcc-3.2-redhat-8  /usr/gcc-3.3

I'd like to be able to remove the old ones and my C++ binaries are
still ok. -R doesn't help me on that.


H.J.