http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49970
--- Comment #4 from Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl.washington.edu> 2011-08-03 19:09:22 UTC --- On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 07:01:55PM +0000, jimis at gmx dot net wrote: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49970 > > --- Comment #2 from jimis <jimis at gmx dot net> 2011-08-03 19:01:51 UTC --- > I use it casually for packages that use autotools to configure the build, it > always works fine. And for gcc it has worked for me plenty of times for i386 > C-frontend only builds, and till not I've only seen libgfortran failing. > > Why it should be supported? Especially for GCC it is very handy, I build the > beast without configuring --prefix at all, and then install someplace. Then I > apply some patch, hit make and only relevant files are compiled, and install > some place elsewhere. If I had to reconfigure with a different --prefix, make > would build many more files, and I'd have to delete various config.cache files > because I reconfigured. Have you actually read the instead instructions for gcc? Have you tried the documented method [*]: make DESTDIR=path-to-rootdir install [*] I don't know if it works. If it fails, then you have bug to report.
