Jay K <jay.krell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > it might be nice if I could say e.g. -prefix=~/gnu. > Currently prefix must be a full path. Unix does not have any path like ~/gnu. The ~ is, by convention, expanded by the shell to something like /home/gnu. So this idea does not make sense on Unix. Real VMS support probably requires redefining the notion of a path in some way. E.g., DOS pathnames are also different, and the toolchain has support for that centered on include/filenames.h. I'm sure VMS will require different kinds of support, but that seems to me like the place to start. > Might also be nice for gcc to look in its own directory for cc1, or heck, even .h and .a/.lib files? That would be an extremely bad idea. gcc should not change behaviour based on the directory where you run it. (Unless you explcitly add the current directory to various environment variables, which is in itself a bad idea.) Ian
