Installation proposal

Jim Wilson wilson@redhat.com
Wed Feb 27 10:59:00 GMT 2002


>	Or, are you saying that you somehow want GCC to recognize the
>directory into which it was installed and access all files with relative
>paths so that $prefix no longer would be built into the compiler and only
>used for installation?

Gcc already tries to create relative paths internally if GCC_EXEC_PREFIX is not
specified.  See the make_relative_prefix function in gcc.c.  However, prefix
is still built in, because we need to compare prefix against exec_prefix
to compute the relative paths.

Jim



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