Re: pkg/49545: cross/avr-gcc failure on OSX

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49545; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/49545: cross/avr-gcc failure on OSX
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:41:24 +0100

 > 	I don't know what the point of installing a build-system library 
 > 	into the cross package is, but libiberty is actually built into
 > 	a directory with a name derived from calling the C compiler with 
 > 	-print-multi-os-directory (whatever that is, actually).
 > 	On NetBSD, that directory is simply ".", while on my OSX system, 
 > 	it's "x86_64". So the pkgsrc Makefile needs to use that name, too:
 
 That's the real bug, it should not do that. It is creating problems when
 the main compiler is not gcc. Take a look at freemint-gcc instead.
 
 Joerg