What --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs is actually doing?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

dominiq@lps.ens.fr (Dominique Dhumieres) writes:

> Could someone translate in English for foreign dummies:
>
> "Specify that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler 
> specific subdirectory (libdir/gcc) rather than the usual places."

"runtime libraries" => the C++ standard library and other language
support libraries.

"compiler specific subdirectory" => a directory which will only be
searched by that specific version of the compiler.

"the usual places" => directories which are normally searched by any
version of the compiler.

Hope that helps.

Ian