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From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch
CC: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
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In-reply-to: <421F4992.3030000@lu.unisi.ch> (message from Paolo Bonzini on
	Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:51:46 +0100)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix in-srcdir build of gcc
References:  <421F4992.3030000@lu.unisi.ch>
X-SW-Source: 2005-02/txt/msg00263.txt.bz2


> While this can be even expected for gcc, which anyway is almost always 
> built out-of-srcdir, it may violate the "principle of least surprise" 
> for binutils or gdb.

As I am a proponent of "principle of least surprise" (and have been
keeping build-in-srcdir mostly working, with little reward) I'm going
to refrain from commenting.  I'll leave it up to the other build
maintainers to decide on this one.