Re: [PATCH] Fix fixincludes for canadian cross builds - next try

[Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>]

On 04/20/2017 01:11 PM, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This is my new attempt to clean up the different cross compiler
> configurations.  It turned out to be a very complicated matter,
> so I thought it would be better to postpone it to the stage1.
> 
> In a canadian cross compiler setup we have a different header dir path
> for use in the build and later on the target, which is written to
> install-tools/mkheaders.conf, so I propose to export SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR
> and BUILD_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR from configure.ac to be used in Makefile.in.
> 
> I also removed unnecessary handling of --with-headers, because
> the headers are copied to sys-include and thus it is not necessary to
> use the original path here.
> 
> If --with-sysroot or --with-build-sysroot is used the SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR
> or BUILD_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR contain $${sysroot_headers_suffix},
> which is normally an empty string, but on mips it may be something
> like "mips-r2" which gets appended to the sysroot for use of fixincludes
> but "target_header_dir" which is used in configure to find things like
> the GLIBC version it is not used.  I assume that that either does
> not create problems and is silently ignored, or that people have a
> work around, my patch should not change that, however I have not been
> able to setup a sysroot for mips*-img-linux* or mips*-mti-linux* which
> seem to be the only targets where this might make a difference.
> 
> I have tested all different combinations of --with-sysroot /
> --with-build-sysroot.  Even a native build with --with-sysroot works.
> Except go of course: cross-builds are a no-go area for the go language
> in general;)
> 
> As before I would appreciate your kind help with testing the many
> different build setups.
> 
> 
> So far I have tested native x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and arm-linux-gnueabihf
> cross build configurations.  And everything looks sane.
> 
> Is it OK for trunk?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Bernd.
> 
> 
> fixinc.diff
> 
> 
> 2017-04-18  Bernd Edlinger<bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
> 
> 	* configure.ac (SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR, BUILD_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR,
> 	target_header_dir): Set correctly.
> 	* configure: Regenerated.
> 	* Makefile.in (BUILD_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR): New make variabe.
> 	(LIMITS_H_TEST, if_multiarch, stmp-fixinc): Use BUILD_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR
> 	instead of SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR.
OK.  Please watch for fallout.  I'm not entirely sure mingw is working 
right now, but they're often affected by this stuff.

jeff