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From: "Tom Browder" <tom.browder@gmail.com>
To: "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant@google.com>
Cc: "gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Gcc Configure System
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bc817ee0801161813v2a569788r2155288921c05d13@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y7apmfti.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 16 Jan 2008 16:55:05 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> "Tom Browder" <tom.browder@gmail.com> writes:
...
> > I want to know if there is a preferred or defined way to refer to
> > "/path/to/gcc_src" in build scripts or configure inputs since
> > "$(srcdir)" seems to be locally defined per Makefile.
>
> Most Makefiles know where they are in the heirarchy, and thus do not
> require any special handling--they use $(srcdir)/.. or whatever.
>
> Where that is not the case, for libraries which are built using
> multilib, we use the make variable top_srcdir.  E.g.,
> libstdc++-v3/Makefile.am uses it.

Thanks, Ian, I'll try that.

-Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-17  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17  1:00 Tom Browder
2008-01-17  3:44 ` Tom Browder
2008-01-17  4:23   ` Tim Prince
2008-01-17 16:04   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2008-01-17 18:27     ` Tom Browder [this message]

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