From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9472 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2002 02:43:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9423 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 02:43:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hollebeek.com) (216.178.83.228) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 02:43:18 -0000 Received: (from tim@localhost) by hollebeek.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA02115; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:12:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:43:00 -0000 From: Tim Hollebeek To: Nathanael Nerode Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status Message-ID: <20020630221237.A2110@hollebeek.com> Reply-To: tim@hollebeek.com References: <20020701014139.GA3421@doctormoo.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20020701014139.GA3421@doctormoo.dyndns.org> X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00333.txt.bz2 > * To avoid a lot of subtle problems, configure uses absolute pathnames > for most directories which it puts into the Makefile. This means you > can no longer 'configure', relocate srcdir or builddir, and then 'make'. > I doubt that this is important. It could cause problems with mounted directories, which can have different names on different machines. E.g. if I do a "make" in /usr/export/src/gcc and then try to do a "make install" in /net/src/gcc on a different machine.