From: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obsolete building in source dir?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914125920.A4704@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409141943.i8EJhpx2017814@greed.delorie.com>; from dj@redhat.com on Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:43:51PM -0400
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:43:51PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > > Since every other source package on the planet (it seems) supports
> > > building in the source directory, gcc should too. To do otherwise
> > > would require an SC decision, as it would make gcc incompatible with
> > > everything else.
> >
> > The SC cannot force people to submit patches to fix the problem;
> > building in the source directory has been at least partially broken
> > for years.
>
> The SC decision is "do we *want* to support building in srcdir, or
> should we reject such attempts?" Once we know what the SC wants, we
> can find someone to make the changes (probably me).
I would consider it a technical matter, not a big enough issue for the
SC to step in. So s/SC/GWP maintainers/. If folks with the authority
to approve patches like your patches, cool. I'm not intent on using
the SC to browbeat them into it if they consider that too many kludges
are required.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-14 19:59 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
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 [this message]
[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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