From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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 01:13:00 -0000
Message-id: <87vgh0go6q.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00253.html

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Very thick skull here.  Can we ditch the jargon?

| We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
| GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
 
Why is this description so unclear?  Do you think it would help to
change it to:

| We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
| GCC (populated with the contents of the distribution tarball, or a
| checked-out copy from the GCC CVS); we use @var{objdir} to refer to
| the toplevel build/object directory (in which the files generated
| during the build process will reside).