On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> Another odd thing is that binutils installs:
> /usr/mipsel-linux/bin/mipsel-linux-ld
> and an identical copy at:
> /usr/mipsel-linux/mipsel-linux/bin/ld
The places you /want/ these to show up are /usr/mipsel-linux/bin/ld and
/usr/bin/mipsel-linux-ld. The reason for having two copies is that when
you're calling these tools directly (or from a make script), you want them to
be in your path, so you want them to have a unique name
(/usr/bin/mipsel-linux-ld); but internally, I believe the tools prefer /not/
to have to mess with the name mangling used there, so instead they look for a
tool with the normal name (ld) in an architecture-specific directory
(/usr/mipsel-linux/bin).
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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