Greg Schafer wrote: > Personally, I don't believe in it and will never use it because: > > - the spec is faulty. It doesn't work when placed into an external file > for use by "gcc -specs=..." (luckily LFS is not using it externally). > Every other spec I've tried works properly when placed externally. > (maybe someone can fix this bug in gcc.c ?) > > - the spec has been slated for removal by GCC devs. When that will happen > (if ever) is anyone's guess. > > - nobody else in the entire world uses this spec. Google for it and see. > > - the way it's currently used by LFS is an abuse. This thing is for > *startfiles*, yet LFS uses it to find libs also. Why do you think the > extra libgcc_s.so symlink became necessary? > > - I do not buy into the argument that it should be used because CLFS uses > it. Quite frankly, IMHO CLFS is bizarre.. All the sane cross toolchain > build recipes available today do not resort to such hackery. The sane > ones all use `--with-sysroot'. But I'm getting off-topic now so I'll > save this for another forum/discussion.
Oh, and one other important point I forgot: - the spec is undocumented. Regards Greg -- http://www.diy-linux.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
