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Re: Creating Binary Distribution For Installing On Another Host
- To: "John Lowen" <JLowen at amtdatasouth dot com>
- Subject: Re: Creating Binary Distribution For Installing On Another Host
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 30 May 2001 22:15:41 -0300
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <sb14b9e7.025@amtdatasouth.com>
On May 30, 2001, "John Lowen" <JLowen@amtdatasouth.com> wrote:
> Is it a reasonable approach to install the packages in a temporary
> directory, tar them, move them to the desired host and untar them in
> the default directory.
Yep, this should work with current (CVS) GCC and binutils. It would
not work with GCC 2.95, though; 2.95.* and earlier version will only
work when installed in the prefix for which they were configured.
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