selection or target tools

[Paolo Bonzini]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 05:58:34PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>>>It looks to me like this last changed around 2005-06-16 on HEAD, and we
>>>assume that the assembler installed in $prefix is the assembler you
>>>want the compiler to be using - it's the same assembler you'd get if 
>>>you said "as", so why shouldn't we use it?
>>>
>>When building from a combined tree, I still see that the compiler is 
>>using the assembler in $prefix/$target/bin/as even for a native 
>>configuration.
>>    
>>
>Sure - after it's installed, I'm talking about the stamp-as rule during
>the build.
>
I am a bit confused.

Does Gunther's failure mean that the default for the proposed 
--with-build-tools option, should be $prefix/$target/bin?  This would 
set AS_FOR_TARGET, etc. from within the GCC_TARGET_TOOL toplevel 
configure macro, and percolate all the way down to gcc.

Paolo