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Re: PR4114, 4113, 4082, 4078, (part of) 4096 plus other reports ingcc-bugs
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: PR4114, 4113, 4082, 4078, (part of) 4096 plus other reports ingcc-bugs
- From: "Alan Piszcz 'peesh'" <apiszcz at mitre dot org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:26:54 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: <rittle at labs dot mot dot com>, <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <ungaro at pegasus dot fmrp dot usp dot br>, <partain at dcs dot gla dot ac dot uk>, <ajhood at fl dot net dot au>, <Hermann dot Rochholz at faidor dot de>, <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <karl at gnu dot org>, <bkoz at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <rkl at connect dot org dot uk>
I typically build with
cd gcc-x.x.x
./configure --prefix=/app/gcc-x.x.x
I did notice some problems with 3.00, and it did build and install
However 3.0.1 does not.
I will try a different objdir.
On Fri,
24 Aug 2001, Neil Booth wrote:
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:16:32 +0100
> From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
> To: rittle@labs.mot.com
> Cc: libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org, ungaro@pegasus.fmrp.usp.br, partain@dcs.gla.ac.uk,
> ajhood@fl.net.au, Hermann.Rochholz@faidor.de, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org,
> karl@gnu.org, bkoz@gcc.gnu.org, rkl@connect.org.uk, apiszcz@mitre.org
> Subject: Re: PR4114, 4113, 4082, 4078,
> (part of) 4096 plus other reports in gcc-bugs
>
> Loren James Rittle wrote:-
>
> > ``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.''
>
> FWIW, if .../gcc is the base of the source tree (i.e. it contains the
> MAINTAINERS file), ever since I started work on GCC 18 months ago I
> have used .../gcc/build as my objdir. By my reading of the above
> paragraph, I am violating the "@strong{not} reside in the source tree"
> part. But it has not failed me even once. [I reported it as broken
> once, but I was confused.] This layout isn't mixing up obj files with
> source files, but nor is it a wholly separate part of the directory
> tree.
>
> I normally build GCC on Linux with gmake; it could well be different
> for other OS / makefile combinations.
>
> Neil.
>
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