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Re: minor install nit
- To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at cs dot bris dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: minor install nit
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 21:30:50 -0600
- cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <3599F238.2F8A@cs.bris.ac.uk>you write:
> Hi,
> I recently built the 19980628 snapshot. As I didn't want to clobber the
> installed egcs-1.0.3a, I used the --program-prefix option to ./configure
> so that the snapshot program files got installed as egcs-0628-g++ and
> the like. That way I'd not clobber my existing compiler, *and* know
> exactly which compiler I was invoking
There's a bug in the program-prefix support -- it doesn't work :(
> Another minor nit is that I have to install into my local directory
> structure, rather than /usr/local/whatever. I'd not setup a ../info/
> directory, so there was no ../info/dir file. The install-info then bombs
> out moaning about it. I fixed this by simply copying a dir file from the
> system info directory (yes I know this isn't right, but it got the
> compiler installed).
This may have been fixed by some recent changes to the install-info
target in the gcc subdir.
jeff