On 8/26/18 2:49 PM, Hazel Russman wrote: > Just out of interest, I've been reading gcc's own build instructions and was > surprised to find this: > > "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." > > That seems to mean that using a build subdirectory, as LFS does, is worse > than simply staying in the toplevel one. Obviously it hasn't caused problems > for anyone on this list but I'm curious to know why the devs chose to do it > this way. >
Thread starting at http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2016-January/070725.html. I think the doc is not accurate at all in this respect: - building in a subdirectory works (obviously). - building with srcdir == objdir doesn't (see my posts in the above thread). Regards Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
