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Re: PATCH: testsuite/25741: Gcc testsuite isn't parallel build
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:38:38AM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:47:05AM -0800, Developer Foo wrote:
> > You're right, my mistake, I just did a blind substitution. Here's a
> > new version. Tested again with a bootstrap and "make -j2 -k check"
> > Index: gcc/Makefile.in
>
> It's highly recommended that you use the full pathname for configure;
> there are various other problems that people have seen when using a
> relative pathname. Instead of:
>
> cd gcc-build
> ../gcc/configure ... options ...
>
> use:
>
> srcdir=`pwd`/gcc
> cd gcc-build
> ${srcdir}/configure ... options ...
>
> If other developers think that relative pathnames should be supported,
> I'll take a closer look at your patch.
Well, I use it constantly, and I've fixed bugs in it in the past...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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