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

[Neil Booth]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/8657; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
To: reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
	nobody@gcc.gnu.org, rolf-alois.walter@db.com, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:24:31 +0000

 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.