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Re: Time to update documentation regarding supported configuration styles?
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: rittle at labs dot mot dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:37:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: Time to update documentation regarding supported configuration styles?
- References: <200303140833.h2E8X1cI093647@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:33:01AM -0600, Loren James Rittle wrote:
>
> This is what is getting into libffi/include/Makefile when srcdir == objdir:
>
> top_srcdir = ..
> mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/../mkinstalldirs
>
> yielding mkinstalldirs = /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs
> when it must be ../../.. in this case (at least, for multilib ports).
>
> A reasonable absolute path is getting into top_srcdir when srcdir != objdir.
Looks very familiar. Usually these bugs get reported against libstdc++,
which is incorrect, but there's no way for the user to know that.
> BTW, I estimate that this has been broken for months now thus
> strengthening my usual claim that *no* active developers care about
> this and that we'd be better off changing the documentation
Yes, please.
Phil
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