JÄdrzej Dudkiewicz <jedrzej.dudkiewicz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > What do you mean by "copy the whole environment"? If I build with > --prefix=/opt/gcc-4.5.2, is it enough to copy that directory? I guess > not. So should I also copy /usr/include and /usr/bin/as, /usr/bin/ld > and so on, as you wrote earlier? The latter. > Should I use any other options than > --prefix (any other that I would normaly use?)? Should I use all > options mentioned (--with-build-sysroot, --with-sysroot, --build, > --host, --target)? Hmmm. I guess you should use --with-sysroot, and arrange for the system tools and libraries to be available under the same on both systems. > And as we are at it - it seems that configure script from mpc does not > obey CONFIG_SHELL variable - I set it, as documentation recommends, to > bash, as default /bin/sh is terribly slow. I built gcc 4.5.2 on > mentioned AIX 5.3 and "configure" script from "mpc" (I'm almost sure > it was mpc, as I hadn't such problems with earlier versions of gcc, > which require only mpfr and gmp) run for almost two hours! Is there > some clever way to force usage of bash, or should I use brutal force > and link bash go /bin/sh or change "/bin/sh" to "/usr/bin/bash" in all > scripts? I don't know anything about mpc. I guess brute force is the answer. Please also send a bug report; see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/ . Thanks. Ian