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Re: Building Relocatable gcc
Kyle Girard <kyle@kdmanalytics.com> writes:
>> What do you mean by relocatable?
>>
>> If you use just the --prefix=DIR option, and run "make" and "make
>> install", then you can move the directory DIR wherever you like and
>> everything should continue to work.
>
> By relocatable I mean I guess self contained.. I can use --prefix and
> install the compiler to DIR, yes, but after I rename DIR to DIR2 doesn't
> gcc continue to look for it's headers in DIR?
No. gcc uses relative paths to find its own internal headers.
> If I wanted to zip up the
> gcc in DIR and put it on another machine that doesn't have gcc installed
> on it and doesn't the directory DIR wont it still be looking for headers
> in DIR?
No.
> I'd like to make version of gcc that I can zip up and drop on to a
> machine in a directory of my choice and instantly have a version of gcc
> that I can compile things with. Sort of like the way mingw is done but
> for linux.
That should happen more or less automatically if you follow the simple
procedure I described above.
Ian