On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Sure, but that doesn't answer the question, which was "is there ever
> any advantage to building in-srcdir?" The answer "Yes: one can build
> in srcdir" doesn't quite do it!
Well, unstated in that is that one doesn't have to manually create an ob
On 11/02/2011 05:11 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:42 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 11/01/2011 04:51 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
>>> On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Why not just declare
> that building from the sam
On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:42 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 11/01/2011 04:51 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
Why not just declare
that building from the same directory is not support and have one
simp
On 11/01/2011 04:51 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>> Why not just declare
>>> that building from the same directory is not support and have one
>>> simple set of instructions that always works, as opposed to
On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> Why not just declare
>> that building from the same directory is not support and have one
>> simple set of instructions that always works, as opposed to "this
>> ought to work with snapshots but not w
On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Why not just declare
> that building from the same directory is not support and have one
> simple set of instructions that always works, as opposed to "this
> ought to work with snapshots but not with direct checkouts"?
That's right. Is there ever a
I see this was not applied, and also did not get any review comments.
Let me add our build system maintainers.
If something like this goes in, I suggest to avoid direct references
to SVN (which is a technical detail) and use something more generic
and spell GCC as opposed to gcc when it refers t
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> I tried to express this in this form:
>> --- gcc-4.6.0.dist/gcc/doc/install.texi 2011-03-21 13:13:26.0 +0100
>> +++ gcc-4.6.0/gcc/doc/install.texi 2011-04-28 15:59:53.0 +0200
>> +via SVN, it is reliable. Unpacking int
