From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23408 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2002 17:22:59 -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 23322 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2002 17:22:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gandalf.codesourcery.com) (66.60.148.227) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2002 17:22:57 -0000 Received: from gandalf.codesourcery.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gandalf.codesourcery.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1SHKDn21985; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:20:13 -0800 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:42:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell To: Per Bothner cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Installation proposal Message-ID: <33490000.1014916813@gandalf.codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <3C7E6306.7050709@bothner.com> References: <18220000.1014863411@warlock.codesourcery.com> <3C7E6306.7050709@bothner.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg01821.txt.bz2 --On Thursday, February 28, 2002 09:04:06 AM -0800 Per Bothner wrote: > It does look like trying to directly copy the pre-install tree > into the real install tree is too fragile. But I still think > having a 'build' directory that mirrors the structure of the > prefix directory makes sense, and we can get there incrementally. Yes, this might work. Sadly, it's more than I can take on right now. But perhaps you will have inspired someone! -- Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com