Re: bfd.h installation location

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:44:03AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 13, 2002, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:46:02AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> > Yes, you're right.  Hmm, all this fussing over headers applies equally
> >> > to libbfd.a.
> >> 
> >> Hmm...  Indeed.
> >> 
> >> But then, as H.J.Lu says, $(toolexecdir), which I have proposed, is
> >> not correct, as it contains libraries in the target format, not
> >> libraries for the host with information about the target.
> 
> > It is hardly a new problem.
> 
> Nobody said it was new.  It is just wrong.  Even if
> --enable-targets=all is in use, you still have a different default in
> place.

OK, getting back to this problem.  The only reasonable solutions I see
are to a) only install libbfd.a and headers when host == target, or
b) install normally when host == target, and install as
$target_alias-libbfd.a and $target_alias-bfd.h etc. otherwise.
Case b) is similar to the way we install tools like objdump.

Otherwise you need to supply different prefixes or you'll overwrite
libbfd.a and headers when compiling for different targets.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre