From: Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
Cc: bkoz@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: srcdir == objdir build issues [SC take note]
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030511004320.GA11843@disaster.jaj.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305100140.h4A1eKqB022183@envy.delorie.com>
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 09:40:20PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> It also added a
> maintenance headache for the "synthetic" top-level Makefile, since
> every target in the real Makefile would have to be replicated (and
> maintained - for ever).
That was never the goal. Go back and read the archives again.
The idea was to make the "standard" sequence of
./configure
make (which actually did "make bootstrap")
make install
work. Nothing else. Anything else would only be performed by maintainers
or other experienced users, and they could be relied upon to know the
"correct" procedure.
Phil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-11 0:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-10 1:12 Benjamin Kosnik
2003-05-10 1:40 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-10 4:56 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-05-10 4:57 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-05-11 0:43 ` Phil Edwards [this message]
2003-05-11 0:46 ` DJ Delorie
[not found] <20EC888E-81F7-11D7-9B47-000393681B36@yahoo.com>
2003-05-09 17:55 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-09 18:19 ` Phil Edwards
2003-05-09 18:41 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-09 18:54 ` Phil Edwards
2003-05-09 22:35 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-05-09 22:14 ` Neil Booth
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