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 -dur uClibc-0.9.28.1.orig/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S uClibc-0.9.28.1/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S
2 --- uClibc-0.9.28.1.orig/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S 2007-02-07 11:18:12.000000000 +0100
3 +++ uClibc-0.9.28.1/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S 2007-02-07 10:41:34.000000000 +0100
5 #include <sys/regdef.h>
7 #include <bits/errno.h>
11 /* int clone(int (*fn)(void *arg), void *child_stack, int flags, void *arg) */
13 diff -dur uClibc-0.9.28.1.orig/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/pipe.S uClibc-0.9.28.1/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/pipe.S
14 --- uClibc-0.9.28.1.orig/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/pipe.S 2007-02-07 11:18:12.000000000 +0100
15 +++ uClibc-0.9.28.1/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/pipe.S 2007-02-07 11:16:52.000000000 +0100
17 /*see uClibc's sh/pipe.c and glibc-2.2.4's mips/pipe.S */
22 #include <asm/unistd.h>
23 -#include <asm/regdef.h>
24 +#include <sys/regdef.h>
28 diff -dur uClibc-0.9.28.1.orig/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/syscall.S uClibc-0.9.28.1/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/syscall.S
29 --- uClibc-0.9.28.1.orig/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/syscall.S 2007-02-07 11:18:12.000000000 +0100
30 +++ uClibc-0.9.28.1/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/syscall.S 2007-02-07 11:17:03.000000000 +0100
36 -#include <asm/regdef.h>
38 +#include <sys/regdef.h>