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Re: Installation proposal

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:27:09PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > As David Edelsohn mentioned, there could be problems if you have a
> > previous installed tree with the same prefix.  The tree being tested may
> > accidentally use stuff from the install tree if we aren't manually using
> > -B/-L/-I/etc overrides.
> 
> That would be a bug; the stuff to find the compiler and use its
> current path should prevent this.

In which case is it then impossible to build a cross-binutils,
install it, then build a cross-gcc?

Of course, it's almost certainly easier to do everything via
a single-build tree, but this is a change in behaviour.


r~
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