autoconf trouble

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Jürg Billeter <j at bitron.ch> wrote:

<snip>
> I'm not a toolchain expert but if AFAIK you've correctly built a gnu
> toolchain with enabled sysroot support, the pathes should get adjusted
> automatically and package installation works fine with DESTDIR.

No. This only affects the built-in pathes (ie. (/usr|)/lib, /usr/include
and various toolchain-internal pathes, for ldstub, fpu-emulation, etc).

Pathes passed by command line are obviously not rewritten. 

This wouldn't either work, since it would break references into the 
sourcetree and several user-supplied pathes. How should the toolchain
know, which pathes to rewrite and which not ?

> I don't use this to build X.org (use chroot for that) but bootstrapping
> a base linux system works fine when gcc and binutils have been built
> with the --with-sysroot parameter.

The toolchain packages (gcc, binutils, etc) can easily be (cross-)
compilied, since they don't add absolute search pathes. 
BTW has the --with-sysroot parameter a special meaning to the 
toolchain packages - it builts to *use* some sysroot (aka this is 
the prefix for built-in pathes) and has nothing to do with whether
to built those packages *in* some sysroot.


cu
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