Re: objdir == srcdir is completely unsupported

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:00:04PM -0500, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> > IIRC, Mark recommended to Loren that the doc patch be kept on the branch and
> > reverted on the trunk, and recommended to me that the issue be revisited
> > after the 3.1 release (which was coming up soon).  I used to have all
> > the email from the above, until I did my semiregular mailbox weeding,
> > so I can't point you to a place in the archives.
> 
> Actually, the patch was reverted on the 3.1.X branch but not on the
> mainline/trunk.  Unless I messed up following instructions, I am quite
> certain that I was asked to do it that way...

You're probably right.  This is what I get for weeding.


> Oh well, no matter how we slice it, that is
> the price we pay for allowing our users to configure our source tree
> as *zero* active gcc developers nominally do it... (and which was the
> point of my whole argument for the documentation patch...)
> 
> (Let me readjust my diplomat hat, it just fell off for a moment. ;-)

Maybe the regression testing scripts could do it?


> Lest we forget, DJ spoke up that he was willing to fix such issues
> with in-source configuration as they were reported and he has lived up
> to his word to a tee.

Absolutely.


Phil

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