Bart De VOS pointed out that removing absolute paths from the libc linker scripts is plainly wrong.
It dates from dawn ages of the original crosstool code, and is not well explained. At that time, binutils might not understand the sysroot stuff, and it was necessary to remove absolute paths in that case.
/trunk/scripts/build/libc/glibc.sh | 14 2 12 0 ++------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
1 Check LD_RUN_PATH length, copied from buildroot.
3 binutils-2.18.50.0.6/ld/emultempl/elf32.em | 4 4 0 0 ++++
4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
6 diff -durN binutils-2.18.50.0.6.orig/ld/emultempl/elf32.em binutils-2.18.50.0.6/ld/emultempl/elf32.em
7 --- binutils-2.18.50.0.6.orig/ld/emultempl/elf32.em 2008-04-03 18:54:25.000000000 +0200
8 +++ binutils-2.18.50.0.6/ld/emultempl/elf32.em 2008-05-02 23:30:08.000000000 +0200
10 && command_line.rpath == NULL)
12 lib_path = (const char *) getenv ("LD_RUN_PATH");
13 + if ((lib_path) && (strlen (lib_path) == 0))
15 if (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_search_needed (lib_path, &n,
19 rpath = command_line.rpath;
21 rpath = (const char *) getenv ("LD_RUN_PATH");
22 + if ((rpath) && (strlen (rpath) == 0))
24 if (! (bfd_elf_size_dynamic_sections
25 (link_info.output_bfd, command_line.soname, rpath,
26 command_line.filter_shlib,