Re: ld-2.9.1: REQ: better support for relative link script paths

[Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org>]

Hi!

>>>>> Roland McGrath writes:

 RM> What you'd really like to say is, "search the sublist of the
 RM> search list where we found this linker script", where "sublist"
 RM> is defined as directories that arrived together.  The default
 RM> list would be such a sublist.

I'm not sure if we need all that hair.  I assume you want it because
you're aiming for a linker script that only contains:

  GROUP ( libc.so.6 libc_nonshared.a )

but which automatically finds /lib/libc.so.6 and
/usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a.  While this is neat, I don't think it is
necessary.

I'm not really interested in hiding the FHS's `/' and `/usr' schism, I
just want a system that works when the disk is mounted elsewhere for
cross-compilation.

I would settle for writing the above script as:

  GROUP ( THISDIR/../../lib/libc.so.6 THISDIR/libc_nonshared.a )

where THISDIR is shorthand for ``the directory which contains this
linker script.''

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