[BusyBox] Re: [uClibc]Still having booting problems...

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Thu Oct 18 07:29:46 UTC 2001


On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:42:57AM -0400, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Robert (and the gang),
> 	Is there any way to download and compile the gcc source _without_
> actually installing the binaries (sort of like the functionality you can
> get from uClibc)?  The problem being is that gcc-2.95 is not available
> for my version of Mandrake.  Moreover, after doing some studying, I have
> found that if I were to, say, replace a package with another one,
> something will break.  Things are tied together pretty tightly with
> Mandrake, and I've already screwed up this system enough.
> 	Anyway, thanks for all your help!

You can configure it with the --prefix option to install it
elsewhere, or run it out of the build directory by adding the
`-B ${gcc_build_dir}/gcc/' to the invocation.

Matt





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