The following suggestion is based on my understanding of --with-sysroot, if there were any error, please correct me. To my understanding, currently if cross-compile tool chain (including gcc) is configured with --with-sysroot when installing them, then when cross compiling, ld will look for libraries in $SYSROOT/usr/lib and $SYSROOT/usr/local/lib. Wouldn't it be great that we go one step further that we let ld look for libraries in the dir listed in $SYSROOT/etc/ld.so.conf, if this file ever exits? Of course for each entry in $SYSROOT/etc/ld.so.conf, we prefix $SYSROOT to it. Comments are welcomed. Thanks!
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