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Re: bootstrap/5634: ../configure --prefix=~/... doesn't work
- From: bje at gcc dot gnu dot org
- To: bje at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org, tom at womack dot net
- Date: 18 Feb 2003 04:12:02 -0000
- Subject: Re: bootstrap/5634: ../configure --prefix=~/... doesn't work
- Reply-to: bje at gcc dot gnu dot org, bje at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org, tom at womack dot net, gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org
Synopsis: ../configure --prefix=~/... doesn't work
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: bje
State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 18 04:12:02 2003
State-Changed-Why:
This is due to an inconsistent interaction with your shell, viz:
$ echo prefix=~/install
prefix=/home/bje/install
$ echo --prefix=~/install
--prefix=~/install
Note that the ~ is expanded correctly in the first, but not the second. It is unreasonable to expect all underlying GCC configury to handle ~ as a special case. At the very least, this should be documented in the installation documentation--do you agree?
I tend to use --prefix=$HOME/install with success.
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