From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14722 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2011 16:52:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 14712 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2011 16:52:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (HELO qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.30.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:51:46 +0000 Received: from omta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.19]) by qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id rsi11h0010QkzPwA5sreHj; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:51:38 +0000 Received: from up.mrs.kithrup.com ([24.4.193.8]) by omta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id rsrq1h00J0BKwT48Nsrqv7; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:51:51 +0000 Subject: Re: building binutils from same directory as gcc Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Mike Stump In-Reply-To: <4EAFD7AC.4000806@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:52:00 -0000 Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <4EAFD7AC.4000806@redhat.com> To: Andrew Haley X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 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.