Make compiler work without installing to /usr

[cursedastronaut]

If you just use make -C ./build, you cannot compile if you cannot access /usr as it will still look for files as if those were installed:

$ ./hcc hello_world.HC 
ERROR: Failed to open file: /usr/local/include/tos.HH

If there is a compiler option to specify the location of those files, such as ./src/holyc-lib/, the --help option wasn't clear enough for me to figure it out.

[Jamesbarford]

I'm not sure I see the immediate use case? make install or sudo make install solves this.

[cursedastronaut]

True, but if I don't have root privileges (such as on non-rooted phone), I can't use it. It'd be nice if we could compile it with a prefix like GCC where the default prefix would be /usr/local

[Jamesbarford]

I see your point, presently this isn't something I will look into. However later down the line I'll consider it once the build process is generally less prototypey.

With regard to getting this working on a phone, in all likelihood we'd need to be targeting ARM which the compiler does not yet do.