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 http://in3www.epfl.ch/~schaffne/glibc-configure-apple-as.patch
2 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2004-02/msg00151.html
4 The following makes it possible to configure glibc-2.3.2 on Mac OS X,
5 where the assembler but doesn't understand the --version flag.
8 checking whether ld is GNU ld... no
9 checking for /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as... /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as
10 checking version of /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as...
11 <PAUSES HERE AND JUST SITS THERE DOING NOTHING>
13 --- glibc-2.3.2/configure~ Wed Feb 26 09:20:48 2003
14 +++ glibc-2.3.2/configure Fri Feb 27 13:12:53 2004
16 # Found it, now check the version.
17 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of $AS" >&5
18 echo $ECHO_N "checking version of $AS... $ECHO_C" >&6
19 - ac_prog_version=`$AS --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
20 + ac_prog_version=`$AS -v </dev/null 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
21 case $ac_prog_version in
22 '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
25 Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>