Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > randux@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Thanks. I understood from your post that sysroot is used to point to the >> Solaris files but I couldn't figure out how the end compiler is >> supposed to know its path when it is finally built, because the sysroot >> path won't exist on the target machine. I guess this is specified later >> when building the target compiler somehow. > > When producing the "native" GCC, one will not use the '--with-sysroot=' > at all... Although actually it can sometimes be helpful to use --with-build-sysroot when building the native compiler. That will set the sysroot during the build, for use when building support libraries (using the cross-compiler). Ian
