Jamie Risk <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> But the question is still begging: why then, when the build is >>> configured with `target=arm-linux` the linker looks for the >>> `crti.o` file in the `gcc-4.5.0/gcc/` build directory? >> >> It looks in a number of places for each file; that is just one of them. >> If glibc is installed using the same --prefix as gcc, then it should >> look there as well. I hope. > > According to the strace (included first in the thread, grep > "30919.+crti.o") it seems to just try once and give up. You will only see it look in directories that exist, though. Ian