On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:10:01AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 2) look into the --with-build-tools path, for both a Canadian cross and
> a native build. This defaults to $exec_prefix/$target/bin, so the
> default build tools (used in autoconf tests and by the being-built GCC)
> would be, if found, something like
> /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/{ar,as,ld,...}. These would be "naked"
> names, not $target-prefixed, even when building a cross (because they
> are in a directory named after the target).
If the above isn't restricted to canadian cross, it looks good. This should
apply for a normal cross build as well: (build == host) != target
> We also have the problem of backwards compatibility. I can try to work
> out a patch to implement --with-build-tools in 4.0 and 4.1 (with the new
> logic kicking in only if the option is specified, of course).
Why dou you need a backwards compatibility patch for 4.0/4.1?
Gunther
