From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13596 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2002 19:23:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 13525 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2002 19:23:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp2.surewest.net) (208.45.228.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2002 19:23:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 2028 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2002 19:23:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.164?) (66.60.148.227) by smtp2.surewest.net with SMTP; 27 Feb 2002 19:23:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:26:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell To: "tromey@redhat.com" cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Installation proposal Message-ID: <1225528499.1014837810@[192.168.0.164]> In-Reply-To: <87u1s290vo.fsf@creche.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-TST: test successful SMTP2 X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg01687.txt.bz2 --On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:32 PM -0700 Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell writes: > > Mark> 3. At install time, run a single script which copies everything > Mark> in install into prefix. > > It isn't quite that simple. It never is, is it? :-) I'm confident that there will be some follow-on work to get the kinks out. > Don't shared libraries have to be relinked with knowledge of their > real install location? I don't know; do they? I'm not being facetious; I really don't know. > Sometimes you need to run post-install code, like install-info. Yes, that's true. I'm sure there will need to be some special hooks somewhere for this. > This requires even more disk space than is already required. I'm > probably the last person alive who actually cares about this. Yes, you probably are. :-) If we do the bit where we build during into the "install" directory, then you don't need any more disk space than you do now. You're right that until/unless that happens, more disk space will be needed. Do you have a bottom-line opinion on whether or not you think the change would be a benefit or a hindrance? -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC mark@codesourcery.com