egcs-1.1.2 status

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 4.2.0.25.19990309135509.03adb1a0@mail.lauterbach.com >you write:
  > Not really :-). Currently enable-cpp=/lib will break if you try to set the 
  > installroot via "make prefix=/var/tmp/egcs-root/usr install" (the usual way
The pathname provided by enable-cpp is an absolute pathname -- ie, it is
not relative to $prefix.  That's how it is supposed to work.  

  > I would suggest to make it at least possible to pass cpp_install_dir from 
  > the toplevel make, that would solve it for now.
I don't think we need this right now.

  > Take this as a vote to implement a $install_root variable during the 
  > configure/Makefile overhaul.
We can put it on the list of things we want.  This adds quite a bit of
complexity though.

jeff