PR4114, 4113, 4082, 4078, (part of) 4096 plus other reports ingcc-bugs

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Friday, August 24, 2001 06:37:30 PM -0500 Loren James Rittle 
<rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> wrote:
>> Hmm. I think we can either make in-source builds work, or not. If we
>> can't, then configure should bomb out: this is what libjava did (does?)
>
> I know that logically you are quite right.  I also know that the FSF
> says it must work.

The solution that Richard Henderson and I came up with was that if
you say `./configure' this should translate into:

  mkdir objdir
  cd objdir
  ../configure

and then `make' should translate into:

  cd objdir
  make

In other words, the Makefiles should only know how to do builds where
srcdir != objdir, but there should be a little bit of goo so that
the usual FSF configuration sequence just works.

But, needless to say, this was never implemented.

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Mark Mitchell                mark@codesourcery.com
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