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Subject: RE: Difficulty building gcc 4.3.2 under i386-pc-cygwin
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:23:20 +0100
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NightStrike wrote on 09 September 2008 14:09:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:17:16PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote on 08 September 2008 22:48:
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:43:37PM +0000, Jay wrote:

>>>>> The error also /appeared/ to have the object directory under the
>>>>> source directory.  Don't do that.
>>>> 
>>>> Huh?  There's no reason not to do this.  I do it all of the time.
>>> 
>>>  It is unsupported:
>>> 
>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
>>> 
>>> "... building where objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported."
>> 
>> What's that?  An actual reference to a definitive source?  Do you think
>> that will ever catch on? 
>> 
>> I have been building gcc like that (and also in a completely separate
>> directory) for many years, but if this officially unsanctioned then,
>> nevermind.
> 
> Maybe it's time to officially sanction it, perhaps?


  To do that someone would need to volunteer to maintain it.  And it would be
nice to know beforehand whether it works, and if so why, or why not, and what
the cross-compiling and platform-specific complications might be.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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