Installation proposal

[Nathan Sidwell]

Mark Mitchell wrote:

> 1. The testing we do is much more like the testing the user will do.
oh, yes please. I've a very fragile (cos I'm lazy) script which DTRT
so I can run the the compiler more than just cc1{,plus}, binning that
would be good.

> the children.  Then, have the top-level "make install" do the copying
> step.  Sounds like one day's work to get it working, and another one
> to debug the fallout.
This wouldn't support
	configure --prefix=/usr/local/egcs
		--exec-prefix=/usr/local/egcs/sparc-sun-solaris2.8
to give a non-hypothetical example. I guess --exec-prefix has outlived
its usefulness in these days of stonking great disks. And, as it happens
Rob, like any sane sysadmin, automounts /usr/local from different physical
disks, depending on the OS in use, making exec-prefix redundant.

nathan

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