[uClibc]uclibc tool installation

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Feb 1 07:29:38 UTC 2002


On Fri Feb 01, 2002 at 10:24:23AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> It would be nice if there was a configuration parameter to prevent
> uClibc from installing its various tool wrappers (ARCH-uclibc-gcc, etc)
> under their short names (`gcc' etc).
> 
> As it is, they interfere with finding the build-system's native tools,
> if the uClibc installed bin directory is in your path.  This is a
> problem because often a makefile will want to use both native and cross
> tools.
> 
> [Currently I just delete them by hand after installing, but occasionally
> I forget, and then get confused when my builds fail in wierd ways.]

done.  There are now separate install_utils and install_target_utils 
Makefile targets for installing versions for the host and for the
target machine respectively.  So if you don't want em', just
don't call those makefile targets.  'make install' will still
default to installing them (since I kindof like having them),
but at least it will now be easy enough to avoid them if you
don't want them.

 -Erik

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