compiling EGCS

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <199809110714.AAA25305@cygint.cygnus.com>you write:
  > 	I trying to compile the EGCS compiler with the java front
  > end, I run into a problem where the compilers on my system interferes
  > with each other. Half the time the make files expects to run the 
  > local xgcc(and use its subparts within the build tree of the EGCS
  > compiler) and the other half it expects to use the systems.
  > 
  > The problem I have seen is when xgcc is called from within the 
  > build tree, it pics up cpp and cc1 up from the path, so if you don't
  > have . as the first entry in your path, it will pick up the system
  > installed cpp and cc1 which doesn't support the same options... 
  > (or you can set GCC_EXEC_PREF environment variable), but if you do
  > that now when the system gcc is called, it picks up the EGCS pieces
  > and things don't work that way either :-)
  > 
  > So, I assume that I am doing something wrong - that there is some
  > kind of parameter that I can set in the Makefile to tell the EGCS
  > xgcc compiler front end to only pick up pieces within the build tree.
  > 
  > Could someone please be so kind to inform me what they are?

http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#environ

jeff