Re: Using GNU as with EGCS 1.1.1 on HP/UX 10.20? (small patch)

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>]

On Dec  6, 1998, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:

> [Alexandre Oliva]
>> What do you mean, change the prefix of egcs?  You can't really do
>> that without rebuilding, although you can get close by setting some
>> environment variables.

> I mean compiling egcs with another prefix then gcc and binutils.

Ah.  Well, you can use the same mechanism that has worked with gcc for 
ages: create links to as and real-ld within any of program search
directories of gcc, as suggested in the FAQ.

>> It is not supposed to work in the 1.1 branch.  Perhaps this should
>> be made clear in the FAQ...

> Absolutely.

Done

> And include a comment about _why_ it is not supported in the 1.1
> branch, as I think it should be included. :-)

1.1.1 is only a maintenance release, and --with-{as,ld} are
improvements, not bug fixes, so it didn't fit.  Since it might
introduce incompatibilities, we decided not to install it in the 1.1
branch.

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil