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Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
- To: Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy dot com>
- Subject: Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:36:37 +0200
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <m17kthlkjg.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> I'm not sure what an `objdir' refers to or what under gcc-3.0.2 is
> considered `srcdir'. Or how one knows when they are outside the
> `tree'. I don't see the familiar `src' subdirectory.
'scrdir' and its subdirectories contain the contents of the tarball,
'objdir' is the root of the directory hierarchy in which the build
takes place.
At the beginning, you have to create objdir manually, and invoke the
configure script in srcdir.