From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15809 invoked by alias); 4 Jul 2002 07:19:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15772 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2002 07:19:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (66.60.148.227) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2002 07:19:39 -0000 Received: from warlock.codesourcery.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g647IAa01495; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:18:10 -0700 Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 00:19:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell To: Nathanael Nerode , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" , "binutils@sources.redhat.com" , "gdb@sources.redhat.com" Subject: Re: configure/make/make install with moving srcdir, builddir... Message-ID: <11810000.1025767089@warlock.codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <20020703231357.GA4054@doctormoo.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 --On Wednesday, July 03, 2002 07:13:57 PM -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote: > OK. I've figured out a relatively efficient way to handle *most* of the > cases of 'configure', 'make', and 'make install' being done in different > paths. > > There's one case this *can't* handle. The specification of > ${srcdir} must not change from configure time to make time to > 'make install' time. In other words, you can't pass a totally different > srcdir on the 'make' command line and expect it to work. > > Is this acceptable, or should I try to get this case? I think that's fine. And if we can really simplify our makefiles that's worth more than being able to change the $srcdir around. We can always add that later if someone really, really needs it. -- Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com