On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 3:27 AM Maciej W. Rozycki <ma...@wdc.com> wrote:
>
> Provide means, in the form of a `--with-toolexeclibdir=' configuration
> option, to override the default installation directory for target
> libraries, otherwise known as $toolexeclibdir.  This is so that it is
> possible to get newly-built libraries, particularly the shared ones,
> installed in a common place, so that they can be readily used by the
> target system as their host libraries, possibly over NFS, without a need
> to manually copy them over from the currently hardcoded location they
> would otherwise be installed in.
>
> In the presence of the `--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs' option
> and for configurations building native GCC the option is ignored.
>
> ---
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > > 2. push all the bits sans the libgo/ part and you'll push the libgo/ part
> > >    to your repo and then you'll merge it to GCC.
> > >
> > > There is a slight technical advantage to going with #1 as there'll be no
> > > window where the new option is not consistently supported; it's also less
> > > work as you won't have to do the merge.  But I have no strong preference
> > > either way.
> >
> > I'd rather do #2.  Thanks.  A small window is unlikely to matter to
> > anyone.  Let me know when the rest of the patch is committed.
>
>  This is the version I have committed.  I've also attached the libgo part
> with a ChangeLog entry for your convenience (you'll have to write your own
> change description though).


Thanks.  Committed upstream and to GCC master.

Ian

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