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Re: building binutils from same directory as gcc
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:27:40 +0000
- Subject: Re: building binutils from same directory as gcc
- References: <BANLkTikmsXKgUT43wCjR5+djON7TBZKT6A@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTinXXM_2739KS-GFZBvWSgXUT-_hwA@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTimoi-WbtLSCGCLXAOwSn-A1DOaRdg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1110301444330.3250@gerinyyl.fvgr>
On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Why not just declare
> that building from the same directory is not support and have one
> simple set of instructions that always works, as opposed to "this
> ought to work with snapshots but not with direct checkouts"?
That's right. Is there ever any advantage to building in-srcdir?
I'm not aware of one.
Andrew.