egcs-1.0.2 installation

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>   * For years folks have been striving to make the gnu tools easier
>   to build/install and have been preacing the "tar xzf blah.tar.gz; cd blah;
>   configure; make" as all they need to do for most installations.

I agree that this should work, if possible in any way.


What originally triggered this thread, however, was the case where someone
would build in a separate tree which is rooted within the source tree.

_This_ we should warn against and, as someone else has suggested, we could
even detect and refuse to build in such a situation.

Gerald
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