Re: Update rebuild rules in non-automake directories.

Jan Kratochvil
2009-08-26T17:57:58Z

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:38:07 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> But I have a more general question first: so far I was under the impression
> that GCC and all of src always only builds outside the source directory

I have been so far aware about this requirement only for GCC (SVN).

> Which parts of src can (could) be built in-tree and for which parts is that
> usually done?

Doing it for both binutils and gdb, therefore at least these basic dirs:
bfd binutils gas gdb gprof include ld libdecnumber libiberty opcodes readline

Someone else may give more insight on it.

> Wait ... did you start off with a clean tree after the autotools update,
> or did you run 'cvs up; make' with a tree that was built before the
> update? The latter might show spurious issues.

I have verified now the problem is reproducible with fresh new:
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co gdb

Thanks,
Jan