bootstrap/3236

[Jeff Deifik]

At 10:46 AM 6/20/01 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:14:28AM -0700, Jeff Deifik wrote:
> >
> > This is jeff deifik (from my home domain).
> >
> > I was able to successfully build gcc-3.0 by building in the
> > gcc-3.0 tree. I know you folks said not to do it, but someone else
> > at work did it successfully, and I was at wits end due to the
> > make bootstrap bug I reported.
>
>srcdir == objdir is supposed to work.  We just don't test it very
>often.
>
>What doesn't work at all is when srcdir is a parent of objdir or vice
>versa.

I really appreciate all of your help. When it wasn't working for me, neither
srcdir nor objdir was a parent of the other.

I had ~jdeifik/gnu/gcc-3.0/... where the source was and I had
~jdeifik/gnu/objdir . That is what I reported in the bug report.

         thanks,
         jeff deifik