Cannot build mainline gcc on x86 linux.

Phil Edwards phil@jaj.com
Tue Aug 12 06:48:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:26:52PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:20, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >I cannot build gcc mainline since 1st of August. My usual scheme is:
> > >cvs update
> > >configure
> > We *seriously* recommend building in a separate directory from the build 
> > directory.  *sigh*
> 
> Can't we just make this a requirement? It keeps biting people again and
> again and would be easy to check.

Been there, tried that.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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