It's been a long time that the gcc libraries are all installed in the sys-root.
Thus populate does not need to look above to find the libraries.
/trunk/tools/populate.in | 9 3 6 0 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
1 # powerpc specific configuration file
4 select ARCH_SUPPORT_ABI
5 select ARCH_SUPPORT_CPU
6 select ARCH_SUPPORT_TUNE
8 The PowerPC architecture, as defined by:
9 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/archguide.html