Relocating gcc after build (was: Include Directories)

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:27:38PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> This is becoming a frequently asked question.
> 
> The RPMs from Montavista are relocatable.
> Not sure what technique they used to do that
> (well, ok, I did look at some of their patches when I was writing
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-07/msg00155.html
> so I could probably figure it out if I had to).

The patches are huge and a terrible pain in the ass.

> Relocatability is sneaking into the main tree; see
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-02/msg00307.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-02/msg00428.html
> No idea how much is left to do, or how long it'll take.
> Daniel, care to comment?

GCC 3.4 will support it.  Nothing earlier will to speak of.  If you
want more than that you get to backport the patches yourself :P


> - Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Wilkins...
> I want to be able to install [gcc-3.2.2] in any directory I want. 
> The problem is that the compiler cannot find its include directories ...
> How do I get the compiler to use relative paths?
> 

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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