Re: [PATCH RFC] Add sysroot support.

[Thierry Reding]

* Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 11:51 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >the following patch adds support for gcc's --sysroot argument to libtool.
> >I'll post the patch first and will reply to it, giving more details where
> >needed.
> >
> >I've been building a number of packages with variations of this patch
> >depending on the libtool version. The most tricky packages were those
> >building multiple libtool libraries with inter-dependencies (like glib and
> >gtk). But even those build fine with this patch.
> >
> >One more important fact is that after installing packages I always delete the
> >.la files from my sysroot so that any dependencies will never try to link
> >against the .la file but against the .so directly. This seems to work rather
> >well.
> >
> >I welcome any comments or suggestions.
> 
> I have another sysroot patch that seems (from a first cursory view)
> pretty different.  I'll rebase and send.

That'll be nice to have. I could test your patch against my current setup and
see whether it works for me.

Thierry

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