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Re: PATCH: fixinc


On Nov 29, 2000, Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> wrote:

> However, I just started building from that source tree on another
> machine that may only mount it read-only.

> I have no idea if the powers that be want this patch since I suppose
> that it has the possibility of masking a real error...

Yep.  And there are many other situations in which you'd need write
access to the build tree.  For all bison-generated files, for
example.

What i generally do is to run an initial build (not necessarily
bootstrap) on a machine that has write access to my tree, then start
building on other machines that have read-only access.

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