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Re: [PATCH] Fix in-srcdir build of gcc
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:43:49 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix in-srcdir build of gcc
- References: <421F4992.3030000@lu.unisi.ch>
> While this can be even expected for gcc, which anyway is almost always
> built out-of-srcdir, it may violate the "principle of least surprise"
> for binutils or gdb.
As I am a proponent of "principle of least surprise" (and have been
keeping build-in-srcdir mostly working, with little reward) I'm going
to refrain from commenting. I'll leave it up to the other build
maintainers to decide on this one.