Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!tjs From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.gnu_compiler Subject: Re: That dreaded Linux query again.... Date: 28 Sep 1998 06:05:12 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <360AF965.4D35F33B@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk> <360C1CD7.133D3870@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: longford.cs.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) On 28 Sep 1998 15:05:13 +1000, Toby Hutton wrote: >You shouldn't have to do all the steps manually, obviously, that's >what gcc is for. All I can suggest is removing the cross compiler >you've installed, and re-do it *not as root* installing it into your ^^^^^^^^^^^ >home directory. That's what I did and I've had *no* problems. :-P that's what make -n is for. the gcc install works just fine installing to wherever you want to install it to. in fact, it's possible to produce a gcc version that will either call the native compiler or the psx cross compiler depending on the flags that you pass it. needless to say, it's much saner to just use an exec prefix, but the fact is that there is that option. IMHO it's much better to have a world writeable partition or directory that user binaries get installed into. That way people can share binaries that they compile (presupposing that they understand the security risks), and it means that you can have a relatively small partition for home directories. YMMV. Toby.