make prefix=xxx install no longer working on main line

[Andreas Schwab]

Arnaud Charlet <charlet@ACT-Europe.FR> writes:

> It is no longer possible to do a
>
> make prefix=xxx install
>
> where xxx is different from the prefix used when configuring GCC.
>
> I suspect this is due to the following change:
>
> 2004-04-26  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>
>
> 	* Makefile.def (flags_to_pass): Remove *dir variables that
> 	are passed to the modules via TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS,
> 	as well as prefix and exec_prefix.
> 	* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
>
> Paolo, could you investigate ? Thanks.

The toplevel makefile explicitly empties MAKEOVERRIDES which normally
contains the variable assignments from the command line and is implicitly
passed down to submakes.

Andreas.

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