jrtc27 added a comment.

In D91442#2399750 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D91442#2399750>, @abidh wrote:

> In D91442#2399402 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D91442#2399402>, @lenary wrote:
>
>> In D91442#2399341 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D91442#2399341>, @abidh wrote:
>>
>>> In D91442#2399200 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D91442#2399200>, @lenary wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm worried about this change - I *think* it doesn't cover the existing 
>>>> behaviour of a baremetal GCC toolchain being installed into the same 
>>>> prefix as clang, and clang automatically picking up that baremetal gcc 
>>>> toolchain. What should we expect to do here? This is especially an issue 
>>>> if you're trying to make a relocatable toolchain tarball, where specifying 
>>>> `--gcc-toolchain` automatically is difficult.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to use a relative path with --gcc-toolchain then this 
>>> can be checked in either RISCVToolChain.cpp or GNU.cpp and adjusted 
>>> accordingly?
>>
>> The GCC toolchain, when given a relative path, already interprets it 
>> relative to the working directory the compiler was invoked from, not the 
>> directory the compiler is located in, iirc.
>
> I dont think path is made absolute relative using working directory. What is 
> happening is that if (!VFS.exists(Prefix)) call in the following line will 
> succeed if the path existed relative to working directory. This seems 
> accidental to me.
>
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/5a9f3867046c4e1c97760e22a505f4d1d788417e/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/Gnu.cpp#L1947
>
> I tried a small change to turn a relative --gcc-toolchain into absolute using 
> the compiler installed path and it works ok.  If this is something that works 
> for you then I can post a patch.

Relative paths should be relative to the current working directory. That is 
what everyone expects and is what every other argument does (and see `=` and 
`$SYSROOT` for how GCC and compatible drivers get around that in cases like -I).


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