Subject: Re: potential conflict between tools & sparc `binstall'
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 10/19/2001 11:54:25
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

:  > : not to make any value- or otherwise judgement on this, but, only some
:  > : of the binutils are placed in this directory, and none of GCC:
:  > :
:  > : crocodile-dances ~> ls /usr/local/cross/arm-elf/bin/
:  > : ar      as      ld      nm      ranlib  strip
:  >
:  > Ah, yes.  This was something I added to the pkgsrc cross build structure,
:  > and would in that case need to add it to src/tools.  In any case, it's still
:  > useful.
:
: Actually, I would really prefer it if explicit names were used, not relying
: on PATH to get it right (too much room for error, I think).

Separate issue.  I was musing about adding $TOOLDIR/foo--netbsd/bin links as
a user's convenience.  Builds would use fully qualified, prefixed names from
$TOOLDIR/bin.

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