Bug 568304 – sys-devel/binutils: enable --sysroot support even for native builds

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description SpanKY 2015-12-15 05:51:08 UTC]

this allows people to do sysroot builds w/out building+installing a dedicated cross-compiling toolchain

need to double check things don't break and revisit old known upstream bugs to make sure they're resolved

probably want to enable this only for recent versions of binutils too just to avoid the aforementioned history

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-12-04 22:24:13 UTC]

(In reply to SpanKY from comment #0)
> this allows people to do sysroot builds w/out building+installing a
> dedicated cross-compiling toolchain
> 
> need to double check things don't break and revisit old known upstream bugs
> to make sure they're resolved
> 
> probably want to enable this only for recent versions of binutils too just
> to avoid the aforementioned history

Admitting my cluelessness with this but
1) what do we gain by this precisely?
2) "old known upstream bugs" - which ones?

Yes I did look up the sysroot documentation.

[Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel 2020-07-31 15:03:47 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #1)
> (In reply to SpanKY from comment #0)
> > this allows people to do sysroot builds w/out building+installing a
> > dedicated cross-compiling toolchain
> > 
> > need to double check things don't break and revisit old known upstream bugs
> > to make sure they're resolved
> > 
> > probably want to enable this only for recent versions of binutils too just
> > to avoid the aforementioned history
> 
> Admitting my cluelessness with this but
> 1) what do we gain by this precisely?
> 2) "old known upstream bugs" - which ones?
> 
> Yes I did look up the sysroot documentation.

Oh well...