From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31680 invoked by alias); 11 May 2003 00:43:22 -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 31599 invoked from network); 11 May 2003 00:43:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ns2.jaj.com) (66.93.21.106) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 May 2003 00:43:21 -0000 Received: by ns2.jaj.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id EE3DA2C504; Sat, 10 May 2003 20:43:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:43:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: DJ Delorie 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] Message-ID: <20030511004320.GA11843@disaster.jaj.com> References: <20030509201035.51143c7d.bkoz@redhat.com> <200305100140.h4A1eKqB022183@envy.delorie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305100140.h4A1eKqB022183@envy.delorie.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 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 -- If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams