From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9532 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2002 15:36:17 -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 9513 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2002 15:36:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO touchme.toronto.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Oct 2002 15:36:15 -0000 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (to-dhcp51.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.151]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4428001B6; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:36:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64EE73DD5; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:36:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D99C0F0.50407@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 08:36:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Modra Cc: Nathanael Nerode , Nick Clifton , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: top level makefile.in References: <20021001104833.E25369@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <20021001012213.GA16275@nevyn.them.org> <20021001114136.F25369@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <3D991AAC.4010207@redhat.com> <20021001163755.M25369@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:46:52PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >> Per my reply to Nathaniel, the proposed fix to all this is currently >> waiting on a clear to go, from binutils. > > > OK, go! Maybe I'm dreaming, but once upon a time didn't the > "configure" and "make info" etc. occur in a separate directory? > ie. not generate a whole lot of rubbish in your cvs repo.. It must be a very very long time ago. For longer than I can remember, the release scripts have run in the source directory. This is so that all the generated droppings are left in that same directory. The final pass is something like a ``make distclean'' which should tidy things up. If the distro contains rubish, its a bug in that target. Andrew