From: Tim Prince <tprince@myrealbox.com>
To: George Neill <georgen@neillnet.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: compile with no prefix
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EF8F90.7060506@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8ca0c1f0803291604s60d9982dw78d3999c7ead180e@mail.gmail.com>
George Neill wrote:
> Ian,
>
>> You should always configure it with a prefix. But if you wrap up the
>> whole directory structure under that prefix and put it somewhere else,
>> gcc will still be able to run and to find its supporting programs.
>
> Thanks, maybe someone on the list could help give guidance on the
> following thread
> (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5277589) ?
>
> Recently. I have learned ...
>
> make DESTDIR=/path/to/some/install/dir install
>
> Is this preferred now-a-days over --prefix= ?
--prefix isn't supported for the mpfr build on x86-64, except possibly for
Ubuntu and Debian. As you snipped so aggressively, I don't know if that
might be an issue. I haven't seen an explanation of whether maintainers
of packages other than mpfr have that "preference."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 4:33 George Neill
2008-03-29 4:14 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2008-03-29 23:05 ` George Neill
2008-03-30 13:03 ` Tim Prince [this message]
2008-03-31 17:57 ` George Neill
2008-03-30 6:09 ` NightStrike
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