Re: bootstrap/3236

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU>
To: Jeff Deifik <jeff.deifik@jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: Jeff Deifik <jdeifik@weasel.com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>,
   gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:20:48 -0700

 On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Jeff Deifik wrote:
 > 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.
 
 Yes, I understood that.  Did you try my original suggestion?
 
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