RE: building gcc tool-chain to be used across machines

[Markus Henschel <markus.henschel@xxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Prashant Batra (prbatra)
> Sent: Freitag, 10. Februar 2012 06:40
> To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: building gcc tool-chain to be used across machines
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I want to build a gcc tool-chain on one machine and copy it to
> different machines, and use it there, what are the things I need to
> take care of.
> With initial tries, I have seen that after copying a built tool chain
> to a different machine, gcc tries to search for include and libs into
> the paths given during building (as prefix).
> 
> That paths may not be always present on other machines where I wish to
> use the tool chain.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Prashant

I had similar problems. To get a relocatable toolchain I configured gcc with --prefix and --with-sysroot pointing to the same path. This made gcc use relative paths.