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Re: Weekly gcc images
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>
- To: don fisher <dfisher at as dot arizona dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:38:18 -0400
- Subject: Re: Weekly gcc images
- References: <3F6A07D3.7090909@as.arizona.edu>
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:30:27PM -0700, don fisher wrote:
> all of the builds in the subdirectories use a variable toplevel_srcdir
> defined as:
> /usr/local/gcc-3.4-20030917/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/..
> where it should be:
> /usr/local/gcc-3.4-20030917/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/../..
>
> Just one more directory up is required. Am I doing something wrong? I
> can't believe I am the only one to see this.
Not the only one, but close. This is a standard symptom of building in
the source directory, where the installation instructions repeatedly say
to build in a separate directory. Sourcedir builds are very fragile.
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