bootstrap/3236

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Jeff Deifik wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I understood that.  Did you try my original suggestion?

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