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

[Zack Weinberg]

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

From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
Cc: 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
Subject: Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory
 'gcc'
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:31:55 -0800

 Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:
 
 > Zack Weinberg wrote:-
 >> In my experience, if objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir AND configure
 >> is invoked by a relative pathname, it doesn't work.
 >
 > For nearly 3 years I have used
 >
 > ../configure --enable-languages=whatever --prefix=whatever
 >
 > and it works fine.  I think a '~' in prefix used to always work, but
 > that broke recently in libstdc++.
 
 Are you building Ada?  IIRC that was where the break was.
 
 zw