From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
To: "E. Weddington" <ericw@evcohs.com>
Cc: 'gcc' <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to stop GCC from searching for components in --prefix on Windows host?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fz5aqkay.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4151B5AD.6000005@evcohs.com>
"E. Weddington" <ericw@evcohs.com> writes:
> I'm certainly not afraid to patch this distribution to take out the
> search in --prefix for components as the current searching of PATH (or
> whatever it does after searching --prefix) works just fine. My
> questions would be: is this a sane thing to do (considering the
> problem)? Where would one do this in the code? Is it relatively
> localized? and... would this situation be considered a bug? should I
> fill out a bug report?
That is a sane thing to do if there is no path which you are certain
exists (how about "/"?). The code is in gcc/gcc.c; look for calls to
add_prefix(). It is relatively localized. I don't personally
consider this situation to be a bug.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-22 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-22 16:59 E. Weddington
2004-09-22 17:48 ` Dave Korn
2004-09-22 17:56 ` E. Weddington
2004-09-22 18:34 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2004-09-22 18:37 ` E. Weddington
2004-09-22 18:37 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-09-22 18:46 ` E. Weddington
2004-09-22 20:46 ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-09-22 21:56 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-09-22 23:58 ` E. Weddington
2004-09-23 1:29 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-09-23 12:14 ` Dave Korn
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