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Re: Gcc Configure System
Tom Browder wrote:
> On 1/16/08, Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to help with a new front end for gcc and have a question
>> about the configure system:
>>
>> I notice that each Makefile generated by configure defines srcdir at
>> the top as the directory it is formed in (and then sometimes redefines
>> it later).
>>
>> How, then, should one refer to the absolute root of the source tree
>> regardless of the depth of the Makefile?
>
> I should have been a little more specific:
>
> The recommended way to build gcc is to use a clean directory outside
> the source tree somthing like this:
>
> mkdir build_dir
> cd build_dir
> /path/to/gcc_src/configure <options>
>
> I want to know if there is a preferred or defined way to refer to
> "/path/to/gcc_src" in build scripts or configure inputs since
> "$(srcdir)" seems to be locally defined per Makefile.
>
During bootstrap, by default, I observe that $HOME is included in a
search for your /path/to/gcc_src
When $HOME refers to a path which misleads the bootstrap machinery, it
is necessary to export HOME=
in order to make the bootstrap succeed. Is there documentation on how
this is intended to work?