egcs 1.1a problem and solution

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <Pine.SGI.3.96.980909082632.21330C-100000@gesg34.geo.census.gov>
  > you write:
  > Jeff,
  > Then what is the purpose of the --exec-prefix?
To change where to find the executables.  However, dealing with certain cases
is, obviously nontrivial.


  > Do you have any other suggestions?  I've been building GNU software for
  > many years this way because I support (as most do) multiple enviroments.
  > My environment is pretty engrained in this setup.
At Cygnus we do something like this:

--prefix=/usr/cygnus/latest-940103 --exec-prefix=/usr/cygnus/latest-940103/H-hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20

Note the subtle difference between

--prefix=/opt/gnu --exec-prefix=/opt/gnu-irix

You might be able to do something similar which would completely avoid these
problems.

jeff