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Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: nobody at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org,
- Date: 21 Nov 2002 06:56:01 -0000
- Subject: Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
- Reply-to: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/8657; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
nobody@gcc.gnu.org, rolf-alois.walter@db.com, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 06:50:58 +0000
Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> In my experience, if objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir AND configure
> is invoked by a relative pathname, it doesn't work. But if configure
> is invoked by an absolute pathname, objdir can happily be a
> subdirectory of srcdir; and if objdir is not a subdirectory of srcdir,
> relative paths work fine.
>
> I don't remember the exact failure mode, but it was clearly a case of
> some shell script fragment somewhere getting mixed up about how many
> ../ components it needed to put in a pathname.
For nearly 3 years I have used
../configure --enable-languages=whatever --prefix=whatever
and it works fine. I think a '~' in prefix used to always work, but
that broke recently in libstdc++.
Neil.