From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11413 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2002 17:22:06 -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 11368 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 17:22:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 17:22:01 -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 KAA09136; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from porcupine (law@localhost) by porcupine.slc.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g61HO5P22335; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:24:11 -0600 Message-Id: <200207011724.g61HO5P22335@porcupine.slc.redhat.com> To: Andrew Cagney cc: law@redhat.com, tim@hollebeek.com, 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 "Mon, 01 Jul 2002 12:21:34 EDT." <3D20818E.1040706@ges.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 10:22:00 -0000 From: Jeff Law X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 In message <3D20818E.1040706@ges.redhat.com>, Andrew Cagney writes: >> 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). > >I believe that both BFD and READLINE (in src) are currently broken in >this regard (DJE reported problems). There was a somewhat underwelming >response (see binutils) when it was suggested that developers should be >responsible for ensuring that this obscure functionality continues to work. Hmmm, I'm 99.9% sure I recently did this with a tree which included BFD & READLINE and I didn't see any problems. That doesn't mean such problems don't exist -- it merely means I didn't run into them. jeff