From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27112 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2001 16:03:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 27070 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2001 16:02:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wh2-19.st.uni-magdeburg.de) (141.44.162.19) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2001 16:02:58 -0000 Received: by wh2-19.st.uni-magdeburg.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3F07D9F73; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:04:22 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15355.53381.952478.68886@wh2-19.st.uni-magdeburg.de> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:52:00 -0000 From: Claudio Bley To: kabir.patel@uk.andersen.com Cc: me@rupey.net, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Configuration options In-Reply-To: <80256B0B.00527C06.00@lonhm0003.arthurandersen.com> References: <80256B0B.00527C06.00@lonhm0003.arthurandersen.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under Emacs 21.1.1 X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 >>>>> "kabir" == kabir patel writes: kabir> I have a question regarding configuration options specified kabir> in http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html kabir> In the documentation it states: kabir> --prefix=dirname Specify the toplevel installation kabir> directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools kabir> into a directory other than the default. The toplevel kabir> installation directory defaults to /usr/local. kabir> For this would I specify prompt> ./configure prefix="/home/gnu" kabir> for example. Just READ the documantation again: --prefix=dirname ^^ HTH Claudio