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Re: bootstrap/3236
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:45:38 -0700
- 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 Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:33:36PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 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.
The rest of the explanation still holds, though.
> > # % 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.
Yes, and they do, but the instructions right here tell you 'mkdir
objdir, cd objdir' immediately before that. I think the use of a
relative path is more consistent with the rest of the instructions.
> > 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.
Thanks. Will send patch.
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