http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46607
--- Comment #2 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2010-12-07 13:25:18 UTC --- On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, jakub at gcc dot gnu.org wrote: > Do we really need to support it? DESTDIR just works, and when install > prefix=/whatever doesn't work already for Java, why would anyone expect it > works for Fortran? I believe there are MinGW cases that cannot effectively be done using DESTDIR. It would be expected to work with Fortran because it always has worked with Fortran before; Java was the odd one out. And of course it is a standard GCS facility.