From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Zack Weinberg" To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:26:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010620182603.22873.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00843.html List-Id: The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3236; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Zack Weinberg" To: Jeff Deifik Cc: Jeff Deifik , "Joseph S. Myers" , gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: bootstrap/3236 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:20:48 -0700 On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Jeff Deifik wrote: > 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. Yes, I understood that. Did you try my original suggestion? -- zw The phrase causes storage to be reserved, doesn't mean that it causes storage to be reserved. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of Standardese. -- Mike Stump