Re: [gentoo-alt] horrible GCC symlink fix

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:01 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 31-07-2009 15:03:25 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > Can we finally get rid of the horrible GCC kludge for the symlink issue
> > in the eclass ?
> >
> > Or at the very least provide a flag in which I can turn it off without
> > having the need to go poking eclass everytime I've re-synced ?
>
> 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

Alan.