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Re: Time to update documentation regarding supported configurationstyles?
- From: Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 14 Mar 2003 21:27:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: Time to update documentation regarding supported configurationstyles?
- Organization:
- References: <20030314200256.GA11440@doctormoo>
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:02, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I would be entirely in favor of removing official build-in-srcdir
> support. A lot of problems are created by srcdir=objdir on multilibbed
> ports only. They're usually really, really, irritating to find and fix,
> if it's even possible. Yet worse, some, mystifyingly, only show up on
> native builds.
>
> If people like, we could even make 'configure' complain if
> srcdir=objdir. :-)
We could silently to mkdir BUILD, cd BUILD, ../configure --magic args
that generate a dummy Makefile in srcdir that does cd BUILD; make args
:)
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Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>