From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 04:36:00 -0000
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The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu>
Cc: Jeff Deifik <jeff.deifik@jpl.nasa.gov>,  <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>, 
     <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:33:36 +0100 (BST)

 On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
 
 > I agree this is confusing.  It's also inaccurate; the second paragraph
 > is true whether or not you are using CVS.
 
 The point of referring to CVS is that checking out from CVS will check out 
 into a "gcc" directory rather than a gcc-version directory.
 
 > # % cd *objdir*
 > # % ../*srcdir*/configure [target] [options]
 > 
 > to emphasize that *objdir* and *srcdir* must be entirely separate.
 
 Both relative and absolute paths for srcdir ought to work.
 
 > I would send a patch but I do not know where the master copy of this
 > file lives or how to update all of its children.
 
 gcc/doc/install.texi on mainline (which should probably be merged to the
 branch when the branch reopens), online version generated by
 update_web_docs run from cron.
 
 -- 
 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk