On 10/18/05, Doug Ronne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lets say you wanted to re-compile and install your copy of gcc and you > didn't want some of the files lying around, maybe you didn't want some > ada compiler anymore or something, and you wanted to make sure that > you didn't have leftovers from the previous copy. How would you do > that?
If you are planning to reinstall *any* package (not just gcc), a package manager is useful. There is a section in BLFS that discusses this. For your current problem, one thing you could do is to use the following to install the new gcc: make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/gcc install This will install everything into a fakeroot /var/tmp/gcc. Now remove the previous gcc version from the standard directories and then recursively copy over the file in the fakeroot to their final destination. Something like cd /var/tmp/gcc && tar cf - . | (cd / ; tar xf - ) -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
