[PATCH] autoshit/libfool fixes

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:30:34AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > So it's a chroot with a cross-compiler.  
> 
> Not really. 
> 
> In a chroot environment, the whole toolchain runs inside the chroot. 
> And of course target and host system have to be the same. 
> 
> A sysroot environment is different from that: it just takes all 
> files to import (ie. libs, includes, etc) are taken from the 
> sysroot. The toolchain itself runs directly in the host system.
> It does not matter here, whether host and target are the same
> or completely different.

Sounds like a pretty odd use case.  Why don't you either use a chroot,
or just not have conflicting libraries installed?  I don't see why we
should apply some random weird patch to libtool for something as
incredibly marginal as this (certainly not a 'common headache').
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