Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > Actually, I'm writing an installation script that automatically > downloads/compiles/installs gcc-4.1 from SVN. And the same location > (/usr/local/gcc) is also holding or is going to hold other versions of gcc > (4.0.2, 2.95.3) and I want them all to co-exist as gcc-2.95.3, g++-4.1.0, etc. > I rename the files from the DESTDIR/bin/XXX to /usr/local/gcc/bin/XXX-4.1.0 > etc., and do the same with the man pages so they can co-exist with other > versions (so I know which compiler takes which flags, etc.) I'd rather not do > a straight make install and then rename/delete in the target directory - too > messy. I'd rather just copy across the files I need. If that is your goal then you should set --prefix to the same for all of them, forget DESTDIR, and use --program-suffix or --program-transform-name in concert with --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs. Work with the grain of the build system instead of against it. BTW this will still not allow versioned info files, but this can be fixed easily with a patch. There is one in the debian gcc patchset called "rename-info-files" that does just this. Brian
