Re: [RFT PATCH v4 0/8] Sysroot series

[Charles Wilson]

On 8/2/2010 1:55 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Charles Wilson wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 10:04:16PM CEST:
> > support, use --prefix=/mingw + DESTDIR=/the-sysroot.
>
> What about the w32 users that use --prefix=C:/mingw and then cannot use
> DESTDIR because that will not concatenate?

According to the GNU Standards, you can always do this after building:

make prefix=/new/destdir/old-prefix

And -- supposedly -- "/new/destdir" is not supposed to appear anywhere 
in the installed files.  So, if you're doing a cross build for a mingw 
$host, you can do this:

configure --prefix=C:/MinGW && make
make install --prefix=/tmp/dest/MinGW

and create your installable tarball from /tmp/dest.

That's kind of the whole point of this sysroot idea; you don't want 
/usr/${triple}/sys-root/ to show up in the .la files, the foo-config 
scripts, or the pkg-config files.  All of my tests for mingw-$host have 
been done in the way described.

--
Chuck