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Re: Configuring in a subdirectory of srcdir
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Subject: Re: Configuring in a subdirectory of srcdir
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 20 Jun 2001 21:19:37 -0300
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106200941450.25960-100000@mars.deadcafe.org>
On Jun 20, 2001, Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> wrote:
> building where objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported."
> I've always built in a subdirectory, and recommended that to others. In
> fact that's what the gcc_build script does by default.
> Do I misunderstand, or should this paragraph be rewritten?
It should probably be rewritten. I believe the problem was in using a
relative pathname for srcdir, which is still a problem at `make
install' time :-(
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