From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2054 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2002 16:00:51 -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 2022 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 16:00:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 16:00:41 -0000 Received: from porcupine.slc.redhat.com (vpn50-4.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.4]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA04268; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from porcupine (law@localhost) by porcupine.slc.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g61G38421924; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:03:09 -0600 Message-Id: <200207011603.g61G38421924@porcupine.slc.redhat.com> To: tim@hollebeek.com cc: Nathanael Nerode , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Reply-To: law@redhat.com Subject: Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:12:37 EDT." <20020630221237.A2110@hollebeek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:00:00 -0000 From: Jeff Law X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 In message <20020630221237.A2110@hollebeek.com>, Tim Hollebeek writes: >> * To avoid a lot of subtle problems, configure uses absolute pathnames >> for most directories which it puts into the Makefile. This means you >> can no longer 'configure', relocate srcdir or builddir, and then 'make'. >> I doubt that this is important. I do this regularly -- especially on machines where configure is slow (hpux, aix, solaris). >It could cause problems with mounted directories, which can have >different names on different machines. E.g. if I do a "make" in >/usr/export/src/gcc and then try to do a "make install" in >/net/src/gcc on a different machine. Also a real problem. jeff