Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'

[Andris Pavenis <pavenis@latnet.lv>]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/8657; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis@latnet.lv>
To: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
   nobody@gcc.gnu.org, rolf-alois.walter@db.com, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/8657: No rule to make target `bootstrap' in directory 'gcc'
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:11:42 +0200

 On Thursday 21 November 2002 08:50, Neil Booth wrote:
 > Zack Weinberg wrote:-
 >
 > > In my experience, if objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir AND configure
 > > is invoked by a relative pathname, it doesn't work.  But if configure
 > > is invoked by an absolute pathname, objdir can happily be a
 > > subdirectory of srcdir; and if objdir is not a subdirectory of srcdir,
 > > relative paths work fine.
 > >
 > > I don't remember the exact failure mode, but it was clearly a case of
 > > some shell script fragment somewhere getting mixed up about how many
 > > ../ components it needed to put in a pathname.
 >
 > For nearly 3 years I have used
 >
 > ../configure --enable-languages=whatever --prefix=whatever
 >
 > and it works fine.  I think a '~' in prefix used to always work, but
 > that broke recently in libstdc++.
 
 I also up to recently used similar directory layout for building GCC for 
 target i586-pc-msdosdjgpp (build directory was subdirectory of source one
 and I run configure using relative path). With GCC-3.2 I found that
 I'm getting trouble with 'make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools'. Moving build
 directory out of source one fixed problem and I'm using relative path to 
 configure (like ../gcc-3.2/configure ....).
 
 So my experience shows that simple moving build directory from
 build.djg to ../build.gcc relative to source directory fixed build failure
 with building gnatlib and Ada tools. I didn't study this problem more 
 detailed though. I remember trying something similar under Linux and
 getting the same problem, but I may be wrong.
 
 This was really only problem with build directory being subdirectory of
 source directory I have noticed up to this time. 
 
 Andris