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Re: [Ada] Bootstrapping mainline GNAT fails (with workaround androot cause: makefile bug)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:57:26 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: [Ada] Bootstrapping mainline GNAT fails (with workaround androot cause: makefile bug)
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
> install.texi reads:
>
> | First, we @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built into a
> | separate directory than the sources which does @strong{not} reside
> | within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building
> | where @var{srcdir} == @var{objdir} should still work, but doesn't
> | get extensive testing; building where @var{objdir} is a subdirectory
> | of @var{srcdir} is unsupported.
>
> That's why I didn't care about the breakage in the Ada run-time
> library when OBJDIR is a subdirectory of SRCDIR.
It's been suggested in the past that we should make configuring with
objdir a subdirectory of srcdir supported, then arrange for configuring in
srcdir to create such a subdirectory and configure in there instead, so
that all support for building in srcdir can go away from the Makefiles.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk