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Re: Installation proposal
- From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:55:39 +0000
- Subject: Re: Installation proposal
- Organization: Codesourcery LLC
- References: <11560000.1014832588@warlock.codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 1. The testing we do is much more like the testing the user will do.
oh, yes please. I've a very fragile (cos I'm lazy) script which DTRT
so I can run the the compiler more than just cc1{,plus}, binning that
would be good.
> the children. Then, have the top-level "make install" do the copying
> step. Sounds like one day's work to get it working, and another one
> to debug the fallout.
This wouldn't support
configure --prefix=/usr/local/egcs
--exec-prefix=/usr/local/egcs/sparc-sun-solaris2.8
to give a non-hypothetical example. I guess --exec-prefix has outlived
its usefulness in these days of stonking great disks. And, as it happens
Rob, like any sane sysadmin, automounts /usr/local from different physical
disks, depending on the OS in use, making exec-prefix redundant.
nathan
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