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 Original patch from H.J. Lu, as reported there:
2 http://www.nabble.com/PATCH:-Use-short-for-fnstsw-td14775171.html
4 fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax. The upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.
5 The new assembler (binutils-2.18.50.0.4 and up) will disallow "fnstsw %eax".
7 diff -dur glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
8 --- glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c 2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
9 +++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c 2008-06-24 10:56:14.000000000 +0200
12 fetestexcept (int excepts)
18 /* Get current exceptions. */