Re: [gentoo-alt] horrible GCC symlink fix

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:11 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 31-07-2009 16:09:34 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:01 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > can you be a bit more explanatory on what this is about exactly?
> >
> > This mess, and the associated code in toolchain.eclass.....
> >
> > if [[ ${EPREFIX} != ${realEPREFIX} ]] ; then
> >                 ewarn "Your \${EPREFIX} contains one or more symlinks.
> > GCC has
> > a"
> >                 ewarn "bug which prevents it from working properly when
> > there ar
> > e"
> >                 ewarn "symlinks in your \${EPREFIX}."
> >                 ewarn "See
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29831"
> >                 ewarn "Continuing with your EPREFIX set to:"
> >                 ewarn "${realEPREFIX}"
> >                 export EPREFIX=${realEPREFIX}
> >         fi
>
> I guess the problem is that it works for you but breaks for others?

It's fine here.

At least a variable to turn it off would be useful.

Alan.