Kyle Girard <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> What do you mean by relocatable? >> >> If you use just the --prefix=DIR option, and run "make" and "make >> install", then you can move the directory DIR wherever you like and >> everything should continue to work. > > By relocatable I mean I guess self contained.. I can use --prefix and > install the compiler to DIR, yes, but after I rename DIR to DIR2 doesn't > gcc continue to look for it's headers in DIR? No. gcc uses relative paths to find its own internal headers. > If I wanted to zip up the > gcc in DIR and put it on another machine that doesn't have gcc installed > on it and doesn't the directory DIR wont it still be looking for headers > in DIR? No. > I'd like to make version of gcc that I can zip up and drop on to a > machine in a directory of my choice and instantly have a version of gcc > that I can compile things with. Sort of like the way mingw is done but > for linux. That should happen more or less automatically if you follow the simple procedure I described above. Ian
