Re: bootstrap/3373

[Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com>]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3373; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com>
To: Hans Werner Strube <strube@physik3.gwdg.de>
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re:  bootstrap/3373
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:07:04 -0400 (EDT)

 On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Hans Werner Strube wrote:
 > This is not the same as the case I reported. When building gcc (3.0), g++
 > g77, libstdc++ etc., gcc has no difficulties to find GNU as and ld, which were
 > installed previously in the gcc 2.95.3 tree and the pertinent directory is
 > automatically placed in the -B options by configure. Merely the definition of
 > GCJ in the libjava Makefile does not include the -B option pointing to GNU
 > as and ld.
 
 Although this behavior is at odds with the FAQ, I think there is a good 
 point here... why is FLAGS_FOR_TARGET used for c/c++/chill but not gcj in
 the toplevel configure.in?  Is this an oversight, or is
 -B$(build_tooldir)/bin not really needed?
 
 For reference, here's the original thread on -B$(build_tooldir)/bin:
 
 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1998-10/msg00435.html
 
 Jeff