From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21691 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2002 18:49:12 -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 21615 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2002 18:49:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO potter.sfbay.redhat.com) (209.249.29.60) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2002 18:49:09 -0000 Received: from renascence.sfbay.redhat.com (renascence.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.231.200]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1RIhwh18946; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:43:58 -0800 Received: (from wilson@localhost) by renascence.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1RIn5o14611; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:49:05 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: renascence.sfbay.redhat.com: wilson set sender to wilson@redhat.com using -f To: David Edelsohn Cc: Mark Mitchell , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Installation proposal References: <200202271812.NAA26666@makai.watson.ibm.com> From: Jim Wilson Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:59:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200202271812.NAA26666@makai.watson.ibm.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg01674.txt.bz2 > Or, are you saying that you somehow want GCC to recognize the >directory into which it was installed and access all files with relative >paths so that $prefix no longer would be built into the compiler and only >used for installation? Gcc already tries to create relative paths internally if GCC_EXEC_PREFIX is not specified. See the make_relative_prefix function in gcc.c. However, prefix is still built in, because we need to compare prefix against exec_prefix to compute the relative paths. Jim