Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'

[Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:-

> In my experience, if objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir AND configure
> is invoked by a relative pathname, it doesn't work.  But if configure
> is invoked by an absolute pathname, objdir can happily be a
> subdirectory of srcdir; and if objdir is not a subdirectory of srcdir,
> relative paths work fine.
> 
> I don't remember the exact failure mode, but it was clearly a case of
> some shell script fragment somewhere getting mixed up about how many
> ../ components it needed to put in a pathname.

For nearly 3 years I have used

../configure --enable-languages=whatever --prefix=whatever

and it works fine.  I think a '~' in prefix used to always work, but
that broke recently in libstdc++.

Neil.