[email protected] (Paul Jarc) writes: > To find gcc's installation prefix, I've been using > "gcc -print-search-dirs". That worked up until 4.3, but now gcc > chases symlinks so it can print symlink-free paths. What I want is > the installation path just as it was spelled in > "./configure --prefix=...".
You can get this using "gcc -v" with a sed script. > In my case, that spelling is an absolute > path with no .. elements or superfluous slashes, but it does have > symlinks. Is there any way to get that with gcc 4.3? If not, this > patch seems to restore the behavior I want, but will it have any > harmful consequences? It would make things a tiny bit slower in some cases, but I don't think it would have any other consequences. Ian
