How are the specs generated?

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Jim Wilson wrote:

> Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > I'm trying to build a cross-compiler for i386-unknown-freebsd4.7 using 
> > Newlib as crt, and am trying to figure out how to change the specs used by 
> > xgcc to not want a non-existant crt1.o.
> 
> That seems unlikely to work.  If you want to be able to run programs on 
> a freebsd system, you should use the freebsd libraries and header files. 
>   There is a --with-sysroot configure option that can help here.  Copy 
> the  /usr/include and /usr/lib directories from the target system to the 
> host, and then point gcc to the freebsd root directory with --with-sysroot.
That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid to do..

> > My problem is that when bootstrapping libffi, ld can't find crt1.o (and 
> See the STARTFILE_SPEC definition in i386/freebsd.h.  The default 
> definition in gcc.c uses crt0.o.  The freebsd one uses crt1.o.
Thanx, that's the kind of info I was looking for :)

thx

rlc