From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Deifik <jeff.deifik@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:06:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010620180601.15600.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00842.html
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The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Deifik <jeff.deifik@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU>, 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 11:03:05 -0700

 At 10:46 AM 6/20/01 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
 >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.
 
 I really appreciate all of your help. When it wasn't working for me, neither
 srcdir nor objdir was a parent of the other.
 
 I had ~jdeifik/gnu/gcc-3.0/... where the source was and I had
 ~jdeifik/gnu/objdir . That is what I reported in the bug report.
 
          thanks,
          jeff deifik