From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:07:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011028160541.A74965@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 04:59:52PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Certainly not! objdir/builddir may not be a directory under srcdir,
> otherwise the build process will fail in very obscure ways.  (Yes,
> I've made this mistake before.)

in what circumstances ? I have built with objdir e.g. gcc-3.0/obj
then ../configure, many times, without problems.

regards
john

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