------- Comment #19 from ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-09-21 16:09 ------- > Eric, it is not forbidden to put objdir into srcdir. It is not > unsupported to do so.
Simply amazing... Quoting 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." > Among the many bugs I've found in gcc build and configuration over the > years, not one was due to this. It may have been the hidden trigger of a bunch of them... > More and more bug reports are met with comments like "it works for me" > (IWFM), which I don't find helpful. It's actually IWIYFTI (It Works If You Follow The Instructions). -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27823
