egcs-1.1.2 status

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Wed, 10 March 1999, 12:10:44, law@hurl.cygnus.com wrote:

 > 
 >   In message < 14054.19556.843119.123905@exept.exept.de >you write:
 >   > I second this.  In fact, this is something "autoconf/automake" should
 >   > provide by default; currently every package builder (rpm, dpkg, ...)
 >   > has to identify all absolute pathnames in the various Makefiles and
 >   > needs to find a way to prefix them with an installation prefix.
 >   > 
 >   > If we would have such feature, we could just do (for egcs):
 >   > 
 >   > $ .../configure --prefix=/usr --install-prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT ...
 >   > $ make bootstrap
 >   > $ make install
 >   > 
 >   > No more need to bother with locating all those pathnames...
 >   > 
 >   > If nobody abjects against such a feature, I'll put it on my TODO list
 >   > for egcs-1.2. OK?
 > Not for egcs-1.2, please.  Post egcs-1.2 as part of the configure/make
 > rewrite.
 > 
 > Note there should be one and only one absolute pathname --enable-cpp=<blah>.
 > 
 > This is necessary because the typical location of cpp used by imake and
 > friends is via /lib, which is outside of $prefix.
 > 
 > I'd really prefer not to ever write outside of $prefix, but I didn't see a
 > good solution in this case.
 > 
 > Remember, one has to ask for the cpp wrapper explicitly, furthermore, one
 > has to ask for it to be installed outside of $prefix explicitly too.  One
 > could use:
 > 
 > configure <blah> --prefix=/usr --enable-cpp=<some-install-prefix-path>/lib
 > 
 > 
 > Which will do what packaging folks want/need.

OK, I'll delay it for after egcs-1.2 then. Ben (Elliston), how do
you think about such a feature for autoconf/automake? Perhaps, we
should talk about it in some private discussion.

 > 
 > jeff
 > 

manfred