Re: Building a compiler that honors symbolic links.

[L A Walsh <gsuite@tlinx.org>]

Try mounting your target onto a "make" directory using the bind feature in
mount.


On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:44 AM xaxazak xak via Gcc-help <
gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> When I manually build GCC (via SVN trunk) or LLVM (via GIT trunk) I
> use a symbolic link (/make/) to my development folder as part of the
> destination path.
>
> Both GCC and LLVM extract the “physical” target location of this
> symlink, so their default include paths etc use the physical location,
> which starts with (/media/<HOME>/<HDD>/...) instead of just
> (/make/...).
>
> This is annoying for a few reasons:
>
> 1. I’m capturing the header information (via -H), and I want to avoid
> having <HOME> and <HDD> included in this list.
> 2. <HDD> can change.
>
> I can choose to not use the default include paths (eg -nostdinc++
> etc), and just explicitly set them when I invoke clang, but that makes
> build setup a lot more complex.
>
> Is there any way I can build GCC (and LLVM / clang if you know) so
> that it remembers my symlinks instead of expanding them?
>
>
> (NOTE: Also asked for LLVM, here:
> https://llvm.discourse.group/t/maintaining-symlinks-when-installing/955)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Simon.
>