https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108142
Bug ID: 108142
Summary: Many empty directories created in the build directory
Product: gcc
Version: 13.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: modula2
Assignee: gaius at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: jakub at gcc dot gnu.org
Target Milestone: ---
Seems a lot of new empty directories are created in the build directory during
toplevel configure:
stage{1,2,3,4}/m2
m2/ (lots of subdirectories)
They are created regardless of whether m2 is in --enable-languages= or not,
both when
using absolute pathnames and relative (/whatever/configure
--enable-languages=m2 or
../configure --enable-languages=m2 or ../configure --enable-languages=c etc.)
and from what I can see, they remain empty (don't contain any non-directories)
for the whole duration of build or bootstrap.
Can we get rid of those, or create them only before they'd be actually used?
And, preferably without those stage{1,2,3,4} toplevel directories at least (say
move the stages into m2/ or even gcc/m2 subdirectory of the build directory).
