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From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
	ams@gnu.org, iant@google.com,	gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
	11034@debbugs.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org,	automake@gnu.org,
	binutils@sourceware.org, joseph@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120403042240.s2mpkm8m8ggkw8oo-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F7A10D7.8050908@gmail.com>

Quoting Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>:

> By looking at the 'handle_texinfo_helper' function in the automake script,
> I suspect adding a new Automake option 'info-in-builddir' (say) and an
> handful of lines to the automake script might be enough to give you an easy
> way to force the '.info' files to be generated in the builddir.  But before
> doing so, I'd like to understand why you want so strongly to support such
> a setup.

It is quite common during development / testing to build multiple
configurations simultaneously from the same sources, with separate
make processes.  Writing to the source directory would cause disastrous
race conditions.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-03  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-28 10:05 Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-28 11:25 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-03-28 12:20   ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-28 12:29     ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-03-28 13:02       ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-28 23:43     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-03-31  8:30       ` bug#11034: " Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-31  9:08         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-03-31 10:14           ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-04 13:18             ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-04-05 12:04               ` Stefano Lattarini
     [not found]           ` <4F76D8F2.8050804__46768.5595191599$1333188914$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2012-04-02 14:26             ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-02 15:04               ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-02 15:17                 ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-02 15:30                   ` Stefano Lattarini
     [not found]                   ` <4F79C5F2.2020807__46832.8654104427$1333380662$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2012-04-02 19:37                     ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-02 19:51                       ` Stefano Lattarini
     [not found]                       ` <4F7A0341.9050305__49963.8538728051$1333396325$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2012-04-02 20:19                         ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-02 20:50                           ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-02 21:10                             ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-04-03 20:04                               ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-03 20:05                                 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-03 20:29                                   ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-03 20:40                                     ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-04  7:43                                       ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-03 21:08                                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-04-03 21:40                                 ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-03 23:53                                   ` Miles Bader
2012-04-04  7:47                                     ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-04  9:03                                     ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-03  8:23                             ` Joern Rennecke [this message]
2012-03-31 11:39     ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-31 16:42       ` bug#11034: " Stefano Lattarini

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