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Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org,nobody at gcc dot gnu dot org, rolf-alois dot walter at db dot com, gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:24:31 +0000
- Subject: Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
- References: <20021120150358.30103.qmail@sources.redhat.com>
reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:-
> Synopsis: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: reichelt
> State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 20 07:03:57 2002
> State-Changed-Why:
> The fifth paragraph in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
> states:
>
> First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory than the sources which does not reside
> within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building where srcdir == objdir should still work,
> but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported.
This latter "unsupported" configuration is what (at least) me and Jakub build
on, and it has *always* worked. Maybe the docs should be updated.
Neil.