[Bug libfortran/46607] [4.6 Regression] libgfortran relocated install fails

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46607

--- Comment #2 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2010-12-07 13:25:18 UTC ---
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, jakub at gcc dot gnu.org wrote:

> Do we really need to support it?  DESTDIR just works, and when install
> prefix=/whatever doesn't work already for Java, why would anyone expect it
> works for Fortran?

I believe there are MinGW cases that cannot effectively be done using 
DESTDIR.  It would be expected to work with Fortran because it always has 
worked with Fortran before; Java was the odd one out.  And of course it is 
a standard GCS facility.