------- Comment #20 from hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-06-10 01:45 ------- (In reply to comment #19) > Subject: Re: [4.3/4.4 Regression]: HOSTCC doesn't work > with installed gcc > > hjl dot tools at gmail dot com wrote: > > > They sound to me the ideal usage for --sysroot. They aren't from > > gcc and they don't change from one gcc version to another one. > > You can use one --sysroot for gcc 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, ... > > --syroot supports libraries and headers. Does it support > > assembler and linker? > > Not as far as I know; --sysroot is about the target, not the host.
So setting GCC_EXEC_PREFIX is to support "make check" using non-system assembler and linker with gcc for a target which probably isn't a GNU target/OS. Am I correct? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36443
