CPATH, LIBRARY_PATH, and cross-compilers

[Ludovic Courtès]

Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Richard Biener
> <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> But it still doesn't address the situation where you have multiple
>>>> cross compilers in your PATH all for different targets.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I thought about it, but couldn’t come up with a practical use case
>>> where you’d need to use different cross-compilers in a single build.
>>
>> When you create fat binaries.
>
> That is, a more pragmatic approach would be to not honor these environments
> in a cross compiler at all.

Possibly, though that’d be an incompatible change.

At any rate, there’s a need for similar env. vars for cross-compilers.  WDYT?

Ludo’.