Re: Changing installation dir after building gcc

[Andrew Pinski <apinski at apple dot com>]

On Nov 12, 2003, at 5:26 PM, Jim Wilson wrote:

> Antti Kerola wrote:
> > Is it safe, for example, to copy the whole installation
> > directory (eg. /usr/local/) to directory /usr/mygcc on
> > another computer?
>
> This is supposed to work, but is probably rarely tested.  The gcc 
> driver calls make_relative_prefix to compute a relative path between 
> the two, and then you get the same effect as if you had set 
> GCC_EXEC_PREFIX to point at the new location.
>
> This only works if there is at least one common directory between the 
> two different full pathnames.


Ada did not work though, until just a few days ago.



Thanks,
Andrew Pinski