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From: Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@freenet.de>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: GCC List <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Obsolete building in source dir?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095402723.4989.643.camel@mccallum.corsepiu.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409161638.i8GGc4iF000829@greed.delorie.com>

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:38, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Instead of doing this you could consider to systematically using
> > $host(_alias), $build(_alias), $target(_alias) builddir-subdirectories,
> > no matter if cross-compiling or not.
> 
> Except we can't, because the toplevel machinery is shared among many
> projects.  We have to be careful not to change those without their
> permission.
AFAIU, your concern only applies to subpackages which support "native
compilation only". Do such packages exist within the "uberbaum"?

I am aware about fundamental issues with adalib and about potential
issues with tcl/tk based subpackages, nevertheless all of them can be
expected to support VPATH builds, so I don't see that moving their
--srcdir would break building them. 

I am aware that some configure scripts and Makefiles apply nasty tricks
such as test'ing for presence of tools in neighboring build-directories.
These checks/tests probably would require to be adapted in some cases. 

Ralf


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-17  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-11  4:06 Giovanni Bajo
2004-09-13  7:34 ` DJ Delorie
2004-09-14 19:21   ` Joe Buck
2004-09-14 19:40     ` Zack Weinberg
2004-09-14 19:59       ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-09-14 20:12       ` DJ Delorie
2004-09-14 21:25         ` Zack Weinberg
2004-09-14 22:25           ` DJ Delorie
2004-09-26 23:05             ` Marc Espie
2004-09-28 17:38               ` Per Bothner
2004-09-15 11:09         ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-09-15 15:43           ` DJ Delorie
2004-09-15 16:16             ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-09-15 16:58               ` Phil Edwards
2004-09-15 21:15         ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-09-16  5:59           ` Ralf Corsepius
2004-09-16 16:47             ` DJ Delorie
2004-09-17 11:08               ` Ralf Corsepius [this message]
2004-09-17 21:12                 ` DJ Delorie
2004-09-17 16:38             ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-09-18 15:14               ` Kai Henningsen
2004-09-18 17:31                 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-09-19 18:41                   ` Kai Henningsen
2004-09-20  8:51                     ` Ralf Corsepius
2004-09-16 22:01         ` Matthias B.
2004-09-14 20:08     ` DJ Delorie
2004-09-14 20:18       ` Joe Buck
     [not found]       ` <mailman.80195.1095191985.18468.gnu-gcc@lists.nsr.labs.mot.com>
2004-09-15  6:38         ` Loren James Rittle

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