Re: building binutils from same directory as gcc

[Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>]

On 11/02/2011 05:11 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:42 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 11/01/2011 04:51 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
>>> On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>> On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>>>> Why not just declare
>>>>> that building from the same directory is not support and have one
>>>>> simple set of instructions that always works, as opposed to "this
>>>>> ought to work with snapshots but not with direct checkouts"?
>>>>
>>>> That's right.  Is there ever any advantage to building in-srcdir?
>>>
>>> Yes.  You can do configure && make && make install.
>>
>> Huh?
> 
> Ah, yes, yet another advantage, one can also do:
> 
>   ./configure && make && make install

Of course.  That's what "building in-srcdir" means.

> :-) I do realize that you may not choose to value the feature, but
> that doesn't mean that everyone has the same valuation you have.

Sure, but that doesn't answer the question, which was "is there ever
any advantage to building in-srcdir?"  The answer "Yes: one can build
in srcdir" doesn't quite do it!

Andrew.