Re: problem building gcc-4.3 snapshot in home dir

[Miles Bader <miles at gnu dot org>]

Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> writes:
>> I'm trying to build gcc for installing in my home directory.  I've also
>> installed some of the gcc prerequisites (in particular, libgmp and
>> libmpfr) in my home dir, so I need to tell gcc to search $HOME/lib for
>> libraries.
>
> I think you're making this more complicated than it needs to be.  You
> don't need to muck with BOOT_LDFLAGS or edit any Makefiles, simply
> "--with-gmp=$HOME --with-mpfr=$HOME", assuming that you configured both
> of those with --prefix=$HOME (as it would appear to be the case.)

Thanks, that sounds like a good workaround.

Beyond the immediate practical issue of getting gcc built, I'd also like
to find out if this is (1) a bug that should be reported, (2) a "known
limitation" (gcc isn't expected to work with non-standard prefixes), or
(3) my confusion (I should have set some other option or something).

The fact that it uses different LDFLAGS for stage1 and stage2/3 seems
a little odd to me, since it's using the same linker (and libraries)
in both cases.

[If nobody here knows, I guess I'll just go ahead and file it as a bug
and see what happens.]

Thanks,

-Miles

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