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Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> We use srcdir to refer to the toplevel directory of GCC package.
> (Top level of unpacked GCC.tar.gz)
>
> We use `builddir' to refer to a user created sub-directory under
> the top level directory of GCC package. We recommend running the
> compile from `builddir'.
Certainly not! objdir/builddir may not be a directory under srcdir,
otherwise the build process will fail in very obscure ways. (Yes,
I've made this mistake before.)
Any other suggestions for rewording this section?