Kai Ruottu wrote:
> I didn't use the '--with-sysroot=$sysroot' to point to the
> (unexisting) AIX5.3 C library...
What is that business? Would you have a pointer to dome f* manual I
could use to educate myself? Even if the AIX C library is not freely
available, I could get a hold of one, but what would I have to do
with it?
Putting it below some thought-out $sysroot and pointing to it using
'--with-sysroot=$sysroot'
when configuring binutils and GCC could be a good idea!
The "traditional" install place is the '$tooldir' aka '$prefix/$target',
where $prefix and $target are the values given in
the '--prefix=$prefix' and '--target=$target' configure options. The
target binutils (with bare names) are still in the
'$tooldir/bin' although the new '--with-sysroot=$sysroot' would be used
to change the places for the 'include' and
'lib' from that '$tooldir' to '$sysroot/usr' ! The target binutils are
executable binaries for the $host but they will handle
binaries for the $target. With GCCs for embedded targets the
$tooldir/include and $tooldir/lib will still keep the
target headers and the target libraries, one can think them being some
"data" which the binutils will handle... The
reason why the '--with-sysroot=' is suggested is that there aren't just
that '/usr/include' and '/usr/lib' but many other
'lib's and maybe also 'include's which will belong to the "AIX C
library". The traditional install scheme doesn't cater
these extra includes and libs in any way. I myself browsed the
'gcc/config/rs6000/*aix*' files and the '*_SPEC's in
the config headers told there being many 'lib' directories in use in an
AIX system...
