Re: [PATCH 06/12] libtool.m4: Handle "/" as a sysroot correctly

Richard Purdie <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:50:54 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches
Message-ID <db6129ab7311de9340e1d5c2fa969d3f8fd98732.camel@linuxfoundation.org>
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 17:00 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 25 Oct 2021 15:33, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Update libtool.m4 to resolve a problem with lt_sysroot not being properly
> > updated if the option '--with[-libtool]-sysroot' is not provided when
> > running the 'configure' script for a package so that "/" as a sysroot
> > is handled correctly by libtool.
> 
> this is a long sentence, and there's no concrete examples, so i'm having a
> bit of trouble extrapolating the bug.  can you tweak this a bit to make it
> more clear ?

I've resent with part of that patch and a clearer explanation of what
the issue is. I need to look into what the other bit of the patch is
doing, it looks a bit like two different changes became intertwined.

Cheers,

Richard