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Re: objdir == srcdir is completely unsupported
Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:00:04PM -0500, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> > 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?
The regression testing scripts try to do things exactly as the typical
GCC developer does them. The regression tester's primary purpose is
to keep the tree stable to allow more development, not to keep GCC
stable enough for a release (although that's an important secondary
purpose).
The best way to make configuring in the source tree work is to make it
harder to break it, whether by the use of automated tools (like
automake), better design (make configuring in the source tree make a
subdirectory and configure in that), or whatever.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>