Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>]

See:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-05/msg00330.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-05/msg00702.html

> 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
> 
> 


Andrew