From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26021 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2012 16:04:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 26009 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2012 16:04:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (83.163.83.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:04:28 +0000 Received: from glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q3IG3uQN014184; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:03:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id q3IG3tbr019919; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:03:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:04:00 -0000 Message-Id: <201204181603.q3IG3tbr019919@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com CC: palves@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com, yao@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20120418154041.GA17262@host2.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:40:41 +0200) Subject: Re: Fix in-src-tree builds by making gdbserver/gnulib/ a separate library (a la libiberty, etc.), and adding ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR. References: <20120417170521.GA9906@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8DA538.1060000@redhat.com> <20120417232552.GS2852@adacore.com> <4F8E860F.8050906@redhat.com> <20120418092859.GA5887@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8E949E.1000702@redhat.com> <20120418123254.GA11744@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8EB632.6050501@redhat.com> <20120418125144.GA12372@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8EBBA6.10507@redhat.com> <20120418154041.GA17262@host2.jankratochvil.net> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00591.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:40:41 +0200 > From: Jan Kratochvil > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:03:34 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote: > > On 04/18/2012 01:51 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:40:18 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote: > > >> > This is no different from src/gdb/ vs build/gdb. > > > I (and I guess most of the users) always use just in-src-tree-build with src/ > > > and no separate build/ . > > > > Eh. Why would you prefer doing things that way? > > This is offtopic but: > > After 6 years I still have not figured out a single reason why to do > out-of-src-tree build. It is difficult to switch directories back and forth > between editing .c files and running make. 1. The ability to build native debuggers for mutiple platforms from a single (NFS mounted) source tree. 2. The ability to wipe a single build with a simple rm -rf command. Now can we please go back to discuss diffs to actually improve GDB?