"Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kirkby@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > IMHO, it would be very sensible if gcc had an option to configure such > that the location of the run-time libraries was hard-coded in. Then, > as long as "gcc" is in the path, the libraries would be found. > > This issue seems to come up time and time again. Some think that's a > bad idea - > but I think giving people the choice with an option to configure would > be a good idea. > > I've tried arguing for this on the gcc bug database, but I've never got anywhere. It is a design goal that gcc always be able to find its libraries if you move the installation tree as a whole. Your proposal would provide a different functionality: you would be able to move the gcc binary by itself, without moving the runtime libraries, and it would work. But you can already do that by using a one line shell script to invoke the installed gcc. So this does not seem to me like a useful feature to add to the gcc sources. Ian
