SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

[Ken Moffat]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:49:06PM -0600, Jon Fullmer wrote:
> I don't understand.  I'm aware of CLFS (and even for the PowerPC).   
> This is assuming I want to build a system on a platform other than  
> its destined platform.  I'm actually building it on a PowerPC box  
> running LFS-6.2. That's not the point.
> 

 But, given that most LFS (and BLFS) developers think using anything
other than x86 is unsupportable, CLFS is the only way to go for other
architectures.  And yes, pretending to cross-compile does work for
native builds.  There is a long tradition of using LFS on ppc, but
the book doesn't directly support it.

> The reason I mentioned that I was doing this on PowerPC was to put  
> all the variables on the table.  I'm not sure if this is unique to  
> PowerPC. I suspect that it's actually unique to gcc-4.1.  The point  
> is, if you do a "gcc -dumpspecs", the linker information is no longer  
> at the beginning of the line.  It's in the middle.
> 
 And as others have already noted, yes you are absolutely correct
that the linker information is not at the start of the line.

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