https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125583
--- Comment #5 from Tamar Christina <tnfchris at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #4) > (In reply to Tamar Christina from comment #0) > > According to https://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html this is a supported > > build style > > Nope. See https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html > > "First, we **highly** recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory > from the sources which does **not** reside within the source tree. This is > how we generally build GCC; building where objdir is a subdirectory of > srcdir should work as well; building where objdir == srcdir is unsupported." > > and https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC and > https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ#configure > > We've been trying to get people to stop running ./configure for as long as I > can remember, so I don't see the point in a patch to help them keep doing it. Sure, that's fine. I have no skin in this game. I'm just reporting a bug that was reported to me. The current situation though is very bad. Because the workaround people do give a worse result. So configure should really just reject this.
