On 10/18/05, Jeremy Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > <snip> > > 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 - ) > > Problem is, he cannot 'make install' anywhere because he has already > removed the previous gcc version from the standard directories. (He > said the 'make install' needs gcc to be present and it no longer is.)
OP said he was restarting the build anyways, but asking for a way he could have achieved it. > > Though I'm sure this solution would work otherwise (so long as gcc > doesn't get it's install path hardcoded into anything). > The install prefix is still /usr, the above approach is callled the fakeroot/DESTDIR approach (mentioned in the BLFS book). -- 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
