bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'

[Neil Booth]

reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:-

> Synopsis: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: reichelt
> State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 20 07:03:57 2002
> State-Changed-Why:
>     The fifth paragraph in
>        http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
>     states:
>     
>     First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory than the sources which does not reside
>     within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building where srcdir == objdir should still work,
>     but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported. 

This latter "unsupported" configuration is what (at least) me and Jakub build
on, and it has *always* worked.  Maybe the docs should be updated.

Neil.