SVN-20070706: Step 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain

[Jon Fullmer]

Sorry for the repeat, folks.  I sent this the first time in an HTML  
message, and evidently it took five days to get through the review  
process.  After two days, I resent it in plaintext, and that's what  
spurred the conversation.

Please ignore.

  - Jon

On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Jon Fullmer wrote:

> Gentlemen,
>
> Forgive a novice to this list. I couldn't find any mention of this,  
> so if it's already been talked about, I'm sorry.
>
> Step 5.7 of the recent development book shows this step currently  
> to generate the specs file:
>
> gcc -dumpspecs | sed 's@^/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools&@g' \
>   > `dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs
>
> When putting this system for a non-x86 (PowerPC, to be specific), I  
> noticed that this setup is actually wrong.  I discovered this when  
> the compile test of the dummy.c code showed the interpreter as  
> still being /lib/ld... (as opposed to /tools/lib/ld...). In looking  
> at the generated stream, I noticed that the "/lib/ld..."  
> mentionings do not occur at the beginning of the line, as the sed  
> statement requires. I would think that you would need to remove the  
> ^, like this:
>
> gcc -dumpspecs | sed 's@/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools&@g' \
>   > `dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs
>
> That's what I did, anyway, and it worked great.
>
> This is my first shot at participating in the Development version,  
> so if I'm full of it, or I've totally missed something obvious,  
> feel free to point it out to me.  I love LFS, and would love to see  
> it continue in its greatness.  Thanks.
>
>  - Jon
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