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From: Claudio Bley <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
To: frank.schafer@setuza.cz
Cc: kabir.patel@uk.andersen.com, me@rupey.net, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Configuration options
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15357.65288.238383.7265@wh2-19.st.uni-magdeburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFE070B.3A270313@setuza.cz>

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@setuza.cz> writes:

    Frank> kabir.patel@uk.andersen.com wrote:
    >> I have a question regarding configuration options specified in
    >> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
    >> 
    >> In the documentation it states:
    >> 
    >> --prefix=dirname Specify the toplevel installation
    >> directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools
    >> into a directory other than the default. The toplevel
    >> installation directory defaults to /usr/local.
    >> 
    >> For this would I specify
    >> 
    prompt> ./configure prefix="/home/gnu"
    >>  for example.
    >> 
    >> It didn't seem to work, but came back with an error message
    >> like the following:
    >> 
    >> "Invalid configuration `prefix=/home/gnu': machine
    >> `prefix=prefix=/home/gnu' not recognized"
    >> 
    >> Could somebody tell me whats wrong?
    >> 
    >> Thanks Kabir
    >> 

    Frank> Hi,

    Frank> simply replace the:

    prompt> ./configure prefix="/home/gnu"

    Frank> by:

    prompt> ./configure prefix=/home/gnu

NO. This is not the problem.

To put it clearly this time (Ken?!):

You're missing the double dashes in front of the `--prefix' option.

../gcc-source/configure --prefix="/home/gnu"

The double quotes are okay because they are removed by the shell
before the command line arguments are passed to the configure
script. The last non-option argument is treated as a system type
specification and 'prefix=/home/gnu' is not a valid system type the
GCC configure script knows about.

Claudio

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-23  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-12 15:19 kabir.patel
2001-11-12 22:52 ` Claudio Bley
2001-11-16  0:57 ` Frank Schafer
2001-11-16  7:40   ` Claudio Bley [this message]
2001-11-17 12:26     ` Frank Schafer
2001-11-25 22:30       ` Frank Schafer

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