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Re: [Q] Configure: Choosing as on Solaris, --with-gnu-as, and --with-as
- To: jbuck at synopsys dot COM
- Subject: Re: [Q] Configure: Choosing as on Solaris, --with-gnu-as, and --with-as
- From: jlarmour at redhat dot com (Jonathan Larmour)
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:50:23 GMT
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Newsgroups: cygnus.egcs
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
In article <200102261957.LAA16192@toledo.synopsys.com> you write:
>gcc does not use $PATH to find compiler passes, the assembler, or the linker.
>This is because, if it did, bad things would happen to users who don't
>have the same PATH as the person who installed the compiler. The first
>place it looks is in the same directory as cc1, cc1plus, etc get installed
>in; this is $prefix/lib/gcc-lib/$target/$version .
Actually it's $exec_prefix/.... (which defaults to $prefix of course).
But that reminds me of something I've always been curious about: why
do we expect target includes/libraries under $exec_prefix/$target,
and not $prefix/target ?
Jifl
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