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From: "George Neill" <georgen@neillnet.com>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: compile with no prefix
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8ca0c1f0803291604s60d9982dw78d3999c7ead180e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d4petbf5.fsf@google.com>

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= ?

Later,
George.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-29 23:05 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 [this message]
2008-03-30 13:03     ` Tim Prince
2008-03-31 17:57       ` George Neill
2008-03-30  6:09   ` NightStrike

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