On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 19:28 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > From Paolo's most recent version of his patches to provide sysroot > support in libtool: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/libtool-patc...@gnu.org/msg05556.html > [RFT PATCH v3 3/9] add --with-sysroot > > Right now the default is to use a sysroot. Probably it is > a bit too aggressive, especially because most existing > cross-compilation setups are using the wrong prefix that > includes the sysroot. They would thus stop working until > they switched to --prefix and installing with DESTDIR. > > FYI, this patch series appears to work very well (there was one > remaining regression as of 3pm EDT today, but this most recent version > may have fixed that; I haven't checked).
I still think your previous concerns about the '=' notation are valid, and I have yet to see those addressed. Why is it necessary in the first place? Furthermore, do these patches address the issue that -L$libdir and -Wl,-rpath,$libdir are passed even when $libdir (or $sysroot$libdir) is in $sys_lib_search_path_spec? Besides causing erroneous -L flags pointing to the native root, this currently leads to ELF RPATHs pointing to the sysroot even when packages are configured with --prefix=$prefix. > Ralf has promised a review this weekend, so I expect this series or > something close to it will be committed to libtool git master quite soon. You're being surprisingly optimistic given their track record. Sigh, alright, I'll let this go a few more days, but I'd really like to get this release out already so that we can move on to other things. Yaakov
