[ale] Q: How to suffix GNU tools' names

[Mills, John M.]

Fletch -

Thanks for the suggestion.

    John> ALErs - I am building some tools to support 'legacy' kernel
    John> versions, libraries, and applications in current Linux
    John> (200504 - Fedora core) and I want to append version-suffixes
    John> to them. I'm building in FC3 using gcc-3.4.2.

Fletch> Have you considered using a separate --prefix with the version and
Fletch> then adding /wherever/gcc-x.y.z/bin to PATH as needed?

I think that's where I'm going to end up. I had gotten a suffix to "stick"
when I built gcc-3.3.x in a RH-7.2 environment and was surprised it didn't
seem to work this time. I expect to ultimately have suites of tools for
different targets, and putting them on different branches sounds good.

 - John Mills