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Re: finding gcc's installation prefix
- From: Michael Haubenwallner <michael dot haubenwallner at salomon dot at>
- To: Paul Jarc <prj at po dot cwru dot edu>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:52:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: finding gcc's installation prefix
- References: <m34p2btysg.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 10:45 -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> (I'm not subscribed here; Mail-Followup-To set.)
<snip>
> as it was spelled in
> "./configure --prefix=...". That spelling is an absolute path with no
> double slashes or .. elements, but it does have symlinks.
<snip>
> Is there any reason this change shouldn't be applied upsteam?
Maybe unrelated to your patch, but I'm wondering why you didn't
encounter something like http://gcc.gnu.org/PR29831 (with gcc-4.1.1,
although still unconfirmed). Because of this, I'm always trying hard to
avoid configuring with --prefix containing symlinks.
But haven't tried gcc-4.3 yet.
/haubi/