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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r284898 - in head: . share/mk
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 11:48:48AM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> What is actually the perceived problem with having paths in those linker
> scripts?  If you use --sysroot, the libraries are searched relative to
> that sysroot, right?

Depends. A plain absolute path stays a plain absolute path. One prefixed
with = is adjusted accordingly. E.g. you want to get

SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/lib");

and not "/usr/lib".

Joerg