Obsolete building in source dir?

[Joe Buck]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:43:51PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > > Since every other source package on the planet (it seems) supports
> > > building in the source directory, gcc should too.  To do otherwise
> > > would require an SC decision, as it would make gcc incompatible with
> > > everything else.
> > 
> > The SC cannot force people to submit patches to fix the problem;
> > building in the source directory has been at least partially broken
> > for years.
> 
> The SC decision is "do we *want* to support building in srcdir, or
> should we reject such attempts?"  Once we know what the SC wants, we
> can find someone to make the changes (probably me).

I would consider it a technical matter, not a big enough issue for the
SC to step in.  So s/SC/GWP maintainers/.  If folks with the authority
to approve patches like your patches, cool.  I'm not intent on using
the SC to browbeat them into it if they consider that too many kludges
are required.