How to stop GCC from searching for components in --prefix on Windows host?

[E. Weddington]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>"E. Weddington" <ericw@evcohs.com> writes:
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>>I'm certainly not afraid to patch this distribution to take out the
>>search in --prefix for components as the current searching of PATH (or
>>whatever it does after searching --prefix) works just fine. My
>>questions would be: is this a sane thing to do (considering the
>>problem)? Where would one do this in the code? Is it relatively
>>localized? and... would this situation be considered a bug? should I
>>fill out a bug report?
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>That is a sane thing to do if there is no path which you are certain
>exists (how about "/"?).  
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That might be a way around it; I build in Cygwin (using --host=mingw32 
--build=mingw32) so installing it to that location after building won't 
be a problem.

>The code is in gcc/gcc.c; look for calls to
>add_prefix().  It is relatively localized.  
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Thanks for the information.

>I don't personally
>consider this situation to be a bug.
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Would it be reasonable as an enhancement request, though?

Thanks
Eric