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From: David Kirkby <david.kirkby@onetel.net>
To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net>, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc 4.6.0
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikr2M_4=sZ146oLphXBHYROwQC4=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikai=WJmj1QsjguBAK0AhXhEY3_kw@mail.gmail.com>

On 4 June 2011 18:56, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 June 2011 18:43, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>   The compilation I just did of gcc 4.6.0 seems to have worked. I did two
>> things differently. I used a build directory outside of the source
>> directory. And secondly I compiled with c++ support. I used the
>> --enable-languages=c,c++ switch also.
>>
>>   I would rather have compiled without the c++ support. I don't use c++ much
>> and it took a very long time to compile. Does anyone know which two of these
>> things may have really made the difference?
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-06/msg00066.html
>
> Do you not believe all the documentation saying that configuring
> inside the source tree might fail?
> Even when doing so causes your build to fail, and not doing so causes
> it to succeed?
>

To  be honest, gcc should do what ATLAS linear algebra library does -
just refuses to build if one attempts to build in the source
directory.

Dave

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-07 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-04 17:44 Bill Cunningham
2011-06-04 17:49 ` Axel Freyn
2011-06-04 17:56 ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-04 18:28   ` Bill Cunningham
2011-06-04 18:51     ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-06 21:13       ` kevin diggs
2011-06-07  0:03         ` Kai Ruottu
2011-06-07  7:54           ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-07  8:09             ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-07 19:40               ` kevin diggs
2011-06-08  6:05                 ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-08  9:05                   ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-08 11:09                   ` Andrew Haley
2011-06-08 12:03                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-08 22:14                   ` kevin diggs
2011-06-09  4:26                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-07 19:55   ` David Kirkby [this message]

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