From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6607 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2002 08:01:28 -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 6538 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 08:01:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 08:01:22 -0000 Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.88]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ow7d-0006CJ-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 04:01:21 -0400 Received: from mailgate.softwire.co.uk ([62.49.203.138] helo=polarbear) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17Ow7W-00061l-0U; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:01:15 +0100 From: "Rupert Wood" To: "'yt wang'" Cc: Subject: RE: gcc installation problem Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 01:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: <616BE6A276E3714788D2AC35C40CD18D5EC4C7@whale.softwire.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <616BE6A276E3714788D2AC35C40CD18D6BFC5C@whale.softwire.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 Yt Wang wrote: > ../gcc-3.0.3/configure --prefix=../gcc-3.0.3 --exec-prefix=. : > libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed Relative paths don't work as prefixes; you need to specify the full path, e.g. ../gcc-3.0.3/configure --prefix=/home/arch03/apps/gcc-3.0.3 You appear to be trying to set the executable prefix to the build directory; that's probably not a good idea. You probably don't need to set exec-prefix (it'll default to the same as prefix) unless you've got many systems mounting the same home directory over NFS and want different binaries for each but maintain a shared directory for scripts, etc. Hope that helps, Rup.