From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26052 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2003 21:27:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25976 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2003 21:27:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO disaster.jaj.com) (66.93.21.106) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 21:27:20 -0000 Received: (from phil@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id h0PLRGK28986; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:27:16 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:27:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: Andreas Schwab Cc: Nathanael Nerode , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: (toplevel patch) Use canonical names for target_subdir, build_subdir. Message-ID: <20030125212716.GA28741@disaster.jaj.com> References: <20030124034053.GA22615@doctormoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00722.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:55:41AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Nathanael Nerode writes: > > > Use the canonical build and target names for build_subdir and target_subdir. > > This saves a tedious amount of work when we get around to autoconf 2.5x > > conversion (where build_alias and target_alias may be empty strings). > > > > Built successfully on i686-pc-linux-gnu. (But then, this should make no > > difference at all in the native case.) > > Did you try "make check"? It's currently completely broken, see > gcc-testresults. Indeed. I build on athlon_mp-pc-linux-gnu, and the target subdir just moved out from underneath me... (On the plus side, the toplevel configury is human-readable these days. :-) So it was easy to find and revert locally. Thanks again for doing all that.) Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002