From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16044 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2002 16:21:41 -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 16021 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 16:21:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 16:21:37 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF693CB2; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:21:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D20818E.1040706@ges.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:21:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020613 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: law@redhat.com Cc: tim@hollebeek.com, Nathanael Nerode , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status References: <200207011603.g61G38421924@porcupine.slc.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 > In message <20020630221237.A2110@hollebeek.com>, Tim Hollebeek writes: > >> * 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. > I do this regularly -- especially on machines where configure is slow > (hpux, aix, solaris). I believe that both BFD and READLINE (in src) are currently broken in this regard (DJE reported problems). There was a somewhat underwelming response (see binutils) when it was suggested that developers should be responsible for ensuring that this obscure functionality continues to work. > >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. > Also a real problem. Andrew