Re: [Tinycc-devel] configury (was const_wanted)

[grischka]

Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> > Why is it necessary to look in two directories at runtime for
> > elf_interp and for the crt objects?
> Actually I realized only today how big mistake it was for the elf interpreter 
> (it's part of the ABI). This will be fixed in Debian today or tomorrow. As to 
> crt objects, I assume they are not part of the ABI since they are not 
> referenced in http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf. Furthermore, they 
> are on /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ on my system, with symlink from /usr/lib to 
> them. I don't know if the symlink will be kept, so I added the code to search 
> them in multiarch directories. I thought crt objects follow the same pattern 
> as libraries and include directory. If I made a huge mistake here again, 
> please tell me.

As I wrote previously I don't know anything about multiarch.

However as long as the issues are not clear, I think we should
not do anything so specialized in TCC which later may turn out
to be wrong or unnecessary.

What about for 0.9.26 to let people just specify all needed
paths directly like so

  --tcc_sysincludepaths
  --tcc_libpaths
  --tcc_crtprefix
  --tcc_elfinterp

Would that work for your debian package?

Such it would be simpler and more flexible, and usuable also
for cross-compilers and other non-standard configuration.

What do you think?

--- grischka