On 12/20/12 17:19, Scott Wood wrote: > On 12/20/2012 12:59:05 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> Why do you need this? Any tools not picked up correctly if you don't >> >> set the PATH? Which ones? >> > >> > If I don't set the PATH for configure then I get this: >> > ERROR: "powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc" either does not exist or does not work >> >> Any hints in config.log what exactly failed? > > The configure script does lots of compilation tests. It's not > surprising that it would fail when the toolchain is not in the PATH, > when --cross-prefix is changed to no longer specify the absolute location.
I mean with --cross-prefix specifying the absolute location (so you don't have to mess with PATH), why does that not work? cheers, Gerd
