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Re: RFC: allow a first "=" to mean sysroot for all paths in linker-scripts?

From: Nicholas Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:56:22 +0100
Subject: Re: RFC: allow a first "=" to mean sysroot for all paths in linker-scripts?
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References: <201405270232 dot s4R2WUJL032457 at ignucius dot se dot axis dot com>

Hi Hans-Peter,

Is there a reason not to allow a first character '=' to mean
sysroot-prefix for all paths inside linker scripts?


No...

So again, how about treating "=" as the sysroot prefix for
*all* paths in linker scripts?


A good idea - please submit a patch.

What to do about quoted paths?
(I suggest both quoted and unquoted "="-prefixed paths to work.)

Hmm, I can think of no situation where a user would want to use = as avalid first character of a real filepath, so quoted and unquotedprefixes are fine.


Cheers
  Nick

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