From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11246 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2010 01:14:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 11236 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Oct 2010 01:14:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:14:00 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9M1DQBm001113 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:13:26 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9M1DP0M025975; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:13:26 -0400 Received: from parfait.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9M1DMai004798; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:13:23 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans , Jie Zhang Subject: Re: Fix Makefile.in in data-directory References: <4CBEDBF5.9060504@codesourcery.com> <4CBFA227.8050501@codesourcery.com> <201010211107.42726.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20101021144556.GA2797@adacore.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:14:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20101021144556.GA2797@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:45:56 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2010-10/txt/msg00347.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: Joel> AFAIK, the FSF recommends against making "make install" also do the build. The standards don't explicitly say that, they just kind of imply it in a funny way: If possible, write the `install' target rule so that it does not modify anything in the directory where the program was built, provided `make all' has just been done. This is convenient for building the program under one user name and installing it under another. This doesn't say anything about the behavior when 'all' was not just invoked... Though, ISTR that gdb always rebuilds some stuff on "make all". That is bad independently though. Tom