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 --- gdb-6.3/bfd/configure.orig Fri Oct 8 16:53:56 2004
2 +++ gdb-6.3/bfd/configure Sun Feb 27 18:32:58 2005
4 lt_cv_file_magic_test_file=`echo /lib/libc.so* /lib/libc-*.so`
8 + lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all
9 + lt_cv_file_magic_test_file=`echo /lib/libuClibc-*.so`
12 netbsd* | knetbsd*-gnu)
13 if echo __ELF__ | $CC -E - | grep __ELF__ > /dev/null; then
14 lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='match_pattern /lib[^/\.]+\.so\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'
15 --- gdb-6.3/libtool.m4.orig Wed Jul 21 21:21:41 2004
16 +++ gdb-6.3/libtool.m4 Mon Feb 28 00:08:11 2005
22 + lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all
23 + lt_cv_file_magic_test_file=`echo /lib/libuClibc-*.so`
27 [lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic ELF [0-9][0-9]*-bit [ML]SB (executable|dynamic lib)']
28 lt_cv_file_magic_cmd=/usr/bin/file
29 --- gdb-6.3/ltconfig.orig Tue Oct 5 15:34:42 2004
30 +++ gdb-6.3/ltconfig Sun Feb 27 18:14:41 2005
33 # Transform linux* to *-*-linux-gnu*, to support old configure scripts.
36 +linux-gnu*|linux-uclibc*) ;;
37 linux*) host=`echo $host | sed 's/^\(.*-.*-linux\)\(.*\)$/\1-gnu\2/'`
40 @@ -1270,6 +1270,24 @@
41 dynamic_linker='GNU/Linux ld.so'
48 + library_names_spec='${libname}${release}.so$versuffix ${libname}${release}.so$major $libname.so'
49 + soname_spec='${libname}${release}.so$major'
50 + finish_cmds='PATH="\$PATH:/sbin" ldconfig -n $libdir'
51 + shlibpath_var=LD_LIBRARY_PATH
52 + shlibpath_overrides_runpath=no
53 + # This implies no fast_install, which is unacceptable.
54 + # Some rework will be needed to allow for fast_install
55 + # before this can be enabled.
56 + # Note: copied from linux-gnu, and may not be appropriate.
57 + hardcode_into_libs=yes
58 + # Assume using the uClibc dynamic linker.
59 + dynamic_linker="uClibc ld.so"
65 --- gdb-6.3/opcodes/configure.orig Fri Sep 17 08:13:38 2004
66 +++ gdb-6.3/opcodes/configure Mon Feb 28 00:09:42 2005
67 @@ -3595,6 +3595,11 @@
72 + lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all
73 + lt_cv_file_magic_test_file=`echo /lib/libuClibc-*.so`
77 lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic ELF [0-9][0-9]*-bit [ML]SB (executable|dynamic lib)'
78 lt_cv_file_magic_cmd=/usr/bin/file