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Re: bootstrap/3236
- To: nobody at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
- From: Jeff Deifik <jeff dot deifik at jpl dot nasa dot gov>
- Date: 20 Jun 2001 18:06:01 -0000
- Cc: gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org,
- Reply-To: Jeff Deifik <jeff dot deifik at jpl dot nasa dot gov>
The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3236; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jeff Deifik <jeff.deifik@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU>, Jeff Deifik <jdeifik@weasel.com>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>,
Jeff Deifik <jeff.deifik@jpl.nasa.gov>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:03:05 -0700
At 10:46 AM 6/20/01 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:14:28AM -0700, Jeff Deifik wrote:
> >
> > This is jeff deifik (from my home domain).
> >
> > I was able to successfully build gcc-3.0 by building in the
> > gcc-3.0 tree. I know you folks said not to do it, but someone else
> > at work did it successfully, and I was at wits end due to the
> > make bootstrap bug I reported.
>
>srcdir == objdir is supposed to work. We just don't test it very
>often.
>
>What doesn't work at all is when srcdir is a parent of objdir or vice
>versa.
I really appreciate all of your help. When it wasn't working for me, neither
srcdir nor objdir was a parent of the other.
I had ~jdeifik/gnu/gcc-3.0/... where the source was and I had
~jdeifik/gnu/objdir . That is what I reported in the bug report.
thanks,
jeff deifik