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Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> writes:
>> 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 ?
The Ada front end build breaks definitely, and others might as well.
(It's already documented that objdir must not be a subdirectory of
srcdir.)