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Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 04:59:52PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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.)
in what circumstances ? I have built with objdir e.g. gcc-3.0/obj
then ../configure, many times, without problems.
regards
john
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