From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1454 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2008 23:05:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 1446 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Mar 2008 23:05:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (HELO wx-out-0506.google.com) (66.249.82.224) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:04:59 +0000 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so940819wxc.14 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:04:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.192.7 with SMTP id p7mr2603420ybf.159.1206831897926; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.51.3 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:05:00 -0000 From: "George Neill" To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: compile with no prefix In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8669c53b12ea2cae X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00306.txt.bz2 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.