Introducing something like RPATH's $ORIGIN for GCC spec files

2025-06-11 Thread John Ericson via Gcc
Hello, I am doing some investigation into making existing software more relocatable. One source of non-reloctability I've noticed is absolute paths in spec files. Relative paths I assume would be relative the current working directory, which is not very useful when the spec file doesn't know wh

Building runtime libraries separately, new GCC packaging in Nixpkgs

2025-07-27 Thread John Ericson via Gcc
Hello, I, like many other people, have had multi-target GCC on the back of my mind for years. For a little background on me, I am a maintainer of Nixpkgs/NixOS who does has done a lot of cross compilation work, and, of course, a single multi-target build is very useful for making cross compilat