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Re: gcc_tooldir
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:20:36PM +0200, Marcus Comstedt wrote:
>
> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>
> > You can relocate the whole gcc to a different direcory since everything
> > is referenced relatively. That is even if you configured gcc with
> > --prefix=foo, you can move it "bar" and it should work fine.
>
> That's assuming you're using a relative path as $prefix, which means
> that the compiler will only work if your cwd is a particular directory
> when you run it. Doesn't sound very useful. If you use an absolute
> path as prefix, then $(gcc_tooldir) will also be an absolute path, and
> moving gcc will not work.
Have you tried it?
I've been testing relocation every release since 3.1, and it does work.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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