re: toolchain/48638 (gcc 4.8 does not support MKREPRO)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: toolchain-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, martin%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: re: toolchain/48638 (gcc 4.8 does not support MKREPRO)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 01:44:20 +1100

 hmmm.
 
 the only real way i know to solve this is to only use relative paths
 for pretty much everything.
 
 that's ugly in several ways, and also doesn't work well with some of
 the supported build methods we have (eg, various objdir methods.)
 
 i'm not sure i think we should fix this part, but instead always
 build in a chroot such that the paths are well known.  it's really
 the only safe way to make sure *ALL* tools use the right paths.
 i'm sure GCC isn't the only problem here, and new cases appear.
 
 
 .mrg.