Re: egcs-1.1.2 status

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 07:08 10.03.99 , Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>  In message <4.2.0.25.19990309135509.03adb1a0@mail.lauterbach.com>you write:
>  > Not really :-). Currently enable-cpp=/lib will break if you try to set 
> the
>  > installroot via "make prefix=/var/tmp/egcs-root/usr install" (the 
> usual way
>The pathname provided by enable-cpp is an absolute pathname -- ie, it is
>not relative to $prefix.  That's how it is supposed to work.

Yeah, but the last time I asked for $install_root I was told to use $prefix 
for this purpose :-). This is now no longer true.

>  > I would suggest to make it at least possible to pass cpp_install_dir from
>  > the toplevel make, that would solve it for now.
>I don't think we need this right now.

Hmm, it would make it possible to use the following construct:

make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr cpp_install_dir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib install

I think this makes it quite clear, what I'm trying to do. Sure I can copy 
cpp in the spec file, but I like the above solution more.

>  > Take this as a vote to implement a $install_root variable during the
>  > configure/Makefile overhaul.
>We can put it on the list of things we want.  This adds quite a bit of
>complexity though.

True, but it will also make things clearer for the user.

Franz.