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 diff -ur gdb-6.4/gdb/configure gdb-6.4-patched/gdb/configure
2 --- gdb-6.4/gdb/configure 2005-07-25 10:08:40.000000000 -0500
3 +++ gdb-6.4-patched/gdb/configure 2007-02-05 13:22:36.000000000 -0600
8 -ac_subdirs_all="$ac_subdirs_all doc testsuite"
9 +ac_subdirs_all="$ac_subdirs_all doc"
10 ac_subdirs_all="$ac_subdirs_all gdbtk"
11 ac_subdirs_all="$ac_subdirs_all multi-ice"
12 ac_subdirs_all="$ac_subdirs_all gdbserver"
17 -subdirs="$subdirs doc testsuite"
18 +subdirs="$subdirs doc"
21 . $srcdir/configure.host
22 diff -ur gdb-6.4/gdb/gdbserver/configure gdb-6.4-patched/gdb/gdbserver/configure
23 --- gdb-6.4/gdb/gdbserver/configure 2005-09-17 18:14:37.000000000 -0500
24 +++ gdb-6.4-patched/gdb/gdbserver/configure 2007-02-05 13:22:58.000000000 -0600
26 ac_cache_corrupted=: ;;
29 - if test "x$ac_old_val" != "x$ac_new_val"; then
30 + if test "`echo $ac_old_val`" != "`echo $ac_new_val`"; then
31 { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: \`$ac_var' has changed since the previous run:" >&5
32 echo "$as_me: error: \`$ac_var' has changed since the previous run:" >&2;}
33 { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: former value: $ac_old_val" >&5
34 diff -ur gdb-6.4/gdb/testsuite/configure gdb-6.4-patched/gdb/testsuite/configure
35 --- gdb-6.4/gdb/testsuite/configure 2005-04-11 09:13:12.000000000 -0500
36 +++ gdb-6.4-patched/gdb/testsuite/configure 2007-02-05 13:22:36.000000000 -0600
38 ac_cache_corrupted=: ;;
41 - if test "x$ac_old_val" != "x$ac_new_val"; then
42 + if test "`echo $ac_old_val" != "`echo $ac_new_val"; then
43 { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: \`$ac_var' has changed since the previous run:" >&5
44 echo "$as_me: error: \`$ac_var' has changed since the previous run:" >&2;}
45 { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: former value: $ac_old_val" >&5
46 diff -ur gdb-6.4/Makefile.in gdb-6.4-patched/Makefile.in
47 --- gdb-6.4/Makefile.in 2005-12-01 23:29:54.000000000 -0600
48 +++ gdb-6.4-patched/Makefile.in 2007-02-05 13:22:36.000000000 -0600
50 # CFLAGS will be just -g. We want to ensure that TARGET libraries
51 # (which we know are built with gcc) are built with optimizations so
52 # prepend -O2 when setting CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET.
53 -CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = -O2 $(CFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET)
54 +CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = $(strip $(CFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET))
55 SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = @SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET@
57 # If GCC_FOR_TARGET is not overriden on the command line, then this
58 diff -ur gdb-6.4/Makefile.tpl gdb-6.4-patched/Makefile.tpl
59 --- gdb-6.4/Makefile.tpl 2005-10-22 05:37:55.000000000 -0500
60 +++ gdb-6.4-patched/Makefile.tpl 2007-02-05 13:22:36.000000000 -0600
62 # CFLAGS will be just -g. We want to ensure that TARGET libraries
63 # (which we know are built with gcc) are built with optimizations so
64 # prepend -O2 when setting CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET.
65 -CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = -O2 $(CFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET)
66 +CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = $(strip $(CFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET))
67 SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = @SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET@
69 # If GCC_FOR_TARGET is not overriden on the command line, then this