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 Sometime around 2.4.22-23, the mips pt_regs.h fields were reordered, breaking
2 coredump handling by gdb for current kernels. Update the hardcoded constants
4 --- gdb-6.2.1/gdb/mips-linux-tdep.c-orig 2004-10-29 14:23:55.000000000 -0500
5 +++ gdb-6.2.1/gdb/mips-linux-tdep.c 2004-10-29 14:26:44.000000000 -0500
15 #define EF_CP0_BADVADDR 41
16 #define EF_CP0_STATUS 42
17 #define EF_CP0_CAUSE 43
19 +#define EF_CP0_STATUS 38
22 +#define EF_CP0_BADVADDR 41
23 +#define EF_CP0_CAUSE 42
24 +#define EF_CP0_EPC 43