Why is libiberty built for the target? (was Re: Why does libiberty have to build before a C library?)

[Phil Edwards]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:47:16PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I'd like to ask a deeper question: Why is libiberty built for the
> target?  I am not aware of any use whatsoever of the generated
> libiberty.a.

With --enable-install-libiberty, the headers are also installed with the .a.
This lets end-users make use of libiberty like any other library, instead
of having to embed the libiberty sources in their own project.

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