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Re: Time to update documentaion regarding supported configuration style
- From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:24:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: Time to update documentaion regarding supported configuration style
>This "convert to separate-objdir build and proceed normally" approach
>was
>suggested by multiple people, implemented by myself, and overruled by
>one
>of the build machinery maintainers on the theory that in-srcdir builds
>are
>the "correct" method, and that new users (completely unfamiliar with
>GCC's
>build setup) wouldn't know to look in BUILD when trying to debug a
>problem.
>The patch was then reverted.
It was also overruled because it was causing great difficulty for me
during the autoconfiscation process.
The autoconfiscation process is now over, so as long as such a thing
doesn't introduce massive ugliness to configure.in (which it might well
do), that particular objection is gone.
--Nathanael