Re: Using /usr/lib/gcc-cross/ for triples

[Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>]

On 06/19/2013 06:49 PM, Wookey wrote:
> +++ Stephen Kelly [2013-06-19 15:48 +0200]:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > In attempting to use clang as a cross compiler, clang needed to be
> > able to find some c runtime files etc which are part of gcc it
> > seems.
> >
> > However, clang only looks in /usr/lib/gcc/$$TRIPLE for such files.
> > It does not look in /usr/lib/gcc-cross/$$TRIPLE , which is where the
> > files are on my ubuntu system at least. I assume it is the same on
> > debian.
> Maybe. This was a relatively recent change make by the gcc maintainer
> (I.e they used to be in /usr/lib/gcc/$$TRIPLE but were moved to
> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/$$TRIPLE. I don't actually know why. Presumably to
> avoid some sort of potential files clash/version-skew issue between
> native and cross compilers. But as you say, given theat there are
> already triplet and version qualifiers in the path for the files in
> there, one might think that was sufficient.

Thanks for the confirmation.

> Doko - why did this path get changed?

Ping? Doko, any response?

Can you point to the patch where the change was introduced? I have no idea
how to find the patch. Is the package in a repo somewhere?

Thanks,

Steve.