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Re: bootstrap/3236
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at stanford dot edu>
- Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:33:36 +0100 (BST)
- cc: Jeff Deifik <jeff dot deifik at jpl dot nasa dot gov>, <gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I agree this is confusing. It's also inaccurate; the second paragraph
> is true whether or not you are using CVS.
The point of referring to CVS is that checking out from CVS will check out
into a "gcc" directory rather than a gcc-version directory.
> # % cd *objdir*
> # % ../*srcdir*/configure [target] [options]
>
> to emphasize that *objdir* and *srcdir* must be entirely separate.
Both relative and absolute paths for srcdir ought to work.
> I would send a patch but I do not know where the master copy of this
> file lives or how to update all of its children.
gcc/doc/install.texi on mainline (which should probably be merged to the
branch when the branch reopens), online version generated by
update_web_docs run from cron.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk