From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 07:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g083g3gn.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m11yjnyej9.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> We use srcdir to refer to the toplevel directory of GCC package.
> (Top level of unpacked GCC.tar.gz)
>
> We use `builddir' to refer to a user created sub-directory under
> the top level directory of GCC package. We recommend running the
> compile from `builddir'.
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.)
Any other suggestions for rewording this section?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-28 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-26 22:30 Harry Putnam
2001-10-27 2:14 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-27 15:10 ` Harry Putnam
2001-10-28 1:13 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-28 7:25 ` Harry Putnam
2001-10-28 7:37 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-10-28 8:05 ` Harry Putnam
2001-10-28 8:58 ` lange92
2001-10-28 8:07 ` John Levon
2001-10-29 9:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-29 4:59 ` John Love-Jensen
2001-10-29 10:10 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] <3BDA7B75.119F779D@unitus.it>
2001-10-27 4:10 ` Harry Putnam
2001-10-27 8:08 Paolo Carlini
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