On 08/24/2018 04:25 PM, Martin Liška wrote:
> On 08/24/2018 03:56 PM, Michael Matz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Martin Liška wrote:
>>
>>>>> Where 
>>>>> /home/marxin/bin/gcc/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.0.0/libgcov.so 
>>>>> points to /home/marxin/bin/gcc/lib64/libgcov.so.1 ?
>>>>
>>>> Any symlinks need to be *relative*, not absolute, so the install tree 
>>>> is relocatable.  There's unlibsubdir / libsubdir_to_prefix in 
>>>> gcc/Makefile.in but I'm not sure if that's available in the libgcc/ 
>>>> directory at present.
>>>
>>> Well I'm not much sure how to do that. Is it about fixing what 
>>> SHLIBGCOV_INSTALL_SOLINK does?
>>
>> Yep.  Though I'll say in our GCC packages we explicitely (i.e. outside the 
>> normal make install) rewrite all shared library symlinks to be relative 
>> and be placed in the version-dependend subdir.  So it might be that many 
>> of the other shared libraries that GCC can install are also wrong (either 
>> not in the version-dep subdir or not relative).  Would be nice to fix all 
>> of them, but that's probably a larger effort.
>>
>> I'd say do with libgcov whatever is currently done with libgcc_s.  If the 
>> latter needs fixing to be relative or in the version-dep subdir (if 
>> enabled) that would be a separate fix (and yes, it would be to the 
>> SHLIB*_INSTALL_SOLINK macro).
> 
> If I see correctly, for libgcc has following files:
> 
> /home/marxin/bin/gcc/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.0.0/libgcc_eh.a
> /home/marxin/bin/gcc/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.0.0/libgcc.a
> /home/marxin/bin/gcc/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
> /home/marxin/bin/gcc/lib64/libgcc_s.so
> 
> where the trick is done in gcc.c in init_gcc_specs function.
> For shared version, they use -lgcc_s while for static -lgcc.
> 
> That explains why I had issues with current layout that static
> version was preferred.
> 
> That said, should I use similar mechanism?

No :) No need to adjust t-libgcov and it works.
Thanks, I'll prepare complete patch.

Martin

> Martin
> 
>>
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Michael.
>>
> 

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