From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5685 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2012 23:22:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 5638 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2012 23:22:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-51.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ainaz.pair.com (HELO ainaz.pair.com) (209.68.2.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:22:07 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.129] (vie-188-118-240-184.dsl.sil.at [188.118.240.184]) by ainaz.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 12B333F40F; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:22:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:22:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Michael Meissner cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, David Edelsohn Subject: Re: [PATCH] New configuration options to enable additional executable/startfile/shared library prefixes In-Reply-To: <20121101211727.GA7077@ibm-tiger.the-meissners.org> Message-ID: References: <20121101211727.GA7077@ibm-tiger.the-meissners.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-11/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Michael Meissner wrote: > * doc/install.texi (--with-extra-prefix=): Document new configure > switches. > (--with-extra-exec-prefix=): Likewise. > (--with-extra-startfile-prefix=): Likewise. > (--with-extra-rpath-prefix=): Likewise. +On powerpc64-linux systems, the dynamic linker will be searched for in +the directories specified by the prefixed, that is used instead of the ^^^^^^^^ +standard system dynamic linker. Is the use of "prefixed" correct her, or would that be "prefixes"? +In addition on powerpc64-linux systems, if the user used static "the user used" comes across a bit oddly. How about "requests"? +linking, as well as the @option{-mcpu=} option, the linker will be Do I understand this correctly that both must hold? Perhaps say "plus" to avoid any ambiguity? +for that particular machine. If dynamic linking is used, these cpu +tuned libraries will not be searched, since the dynamic linker will +load the appropriate cpu tuned library, based on the system that is +executing the code. CPU (uppercase) in two cases. +@item --with-extra-rpath-prefix=@var{prefixes} +Specify additional directories for finding shared libraries when +the compiler is run. Each prefix is separated by the standard path +sepator (usually colon, @option{:}). By default no extra prefixes are +used. If this option is used, each of the directories if they exist +will be specified to the linker via the @option{-rpath=} option. "each of the directories if they exist" is a bit confusing ("each" versus "they"). Do you mean "each of the directories that exists on the build system will be..." or something like that? Gerald