Re: [RFT PATCH v4 0/8] Sysroot series

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Charles Wilson wrote on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:00:47PM CEST:
> On 8/2/2010 1:55 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >What about the w32 users that use --prefix=C:/mingw and then cannot use
> >DESTDIR because that will not concatenate?
> 
> According to the GNU Standards, you can always do this after building:
> 
> make prefix=/new/destdir/old-prefix
> 
> And -- supposedly -- "/new/destdir" is not supposed to appear
> anywhere in the installed files.  So, if you're doing a cross build
> for a mingw $host, you can do this:
> 
> configure --prefix=C:/MinGW && make
> make install --prefix=/tmp/dest/MinGW
> 
> and create your installable tarball from /tmp/dest.

So are you saying this works with this very patch series?  If yes, then
very cool, and I'd very much like this to be exposed in the testsuite
(only on w32 systems, of course, and the C:/... path should be something
unlikely to clash with any actual user files, in case make install does
write there after all).

Thanks,
Ralf