From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU>
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:56:00 -0000
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The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU>
To: Jeff Deifik <jdeifik@weasel.com>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>,
   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 10:46:49 -0700

 On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:14:28AM -0700, Jeff Deifik wrote:
 > 
 > This is jeff deifik (from my home domain).
 > 
 > I was able to successfully build gcc-3.0 by building in the
 > gcc-3.0 tree. I know you folks said not to do it, but someone else
 > at work did it successfully, and I was at wits end due to the
 > make bootstrap bug I reported.
 
 srcdir == objdir is supposed to work.  We just don't test it very
 often.
 
 What doesn't work at all is when srcdir is a parent of objdir or vice
 versa.
 
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