On January 22, 2016 1:08:45 PM CST, William Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, January 22, 2016 18:54, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I'm thinking about changing the way we build packages in separate >> directories. What we do now for tool chain packages is: >> >> mkdir -v ../binutils-build >> cd ../binutils-build >> >> ../binutils-2.25.1/configure ... >> >> >> I'm thinking about changing that to: >> >> mkdir -v build >> cd build >> >> ../configure ... >> > >Hello Bruce, > >In the past, people who have included gcc-build within gcc-<x.y.z> >ended >up having errors in the build process from building within the gcc >source >tree. Since you tested that with ch5, then ch6 should be okay. I >suppose >it depends on the gcc version. The problem occured many years ago. > >We have stuck with this for the longest time: > >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 srcdir == objdir should still >work, >but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir is a >subdirectory >of srcdir is unsupported." > Well, I guess not for GCC, but what about the others then? Don't they all share the same autotools at the top level?
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