Build problem with gcc 3.4 on Mac OS X

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Mon Jun 21 01:20:00 GMT 2004


llewelly@xmission.com writes:

>>From http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html:
>
> # 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.
>
> So you're just lucky. :-) Or perhaps the documentation is wrong. 

The case of objdir being a subdir of srcdir is not in any way different
from objdir being a sibling of srcdir.  Only the difference between srcdir
being absolute or not is interesting.

Andreas.

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