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Re: configure with relative srcdir causing absolute pathname ingcc/Makefile
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:43:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: configure with relative srcdir causing absolute pathname ingcc/Makefile
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Doug Evans wrote:
> When you configure with a relative srcdir, as in
>
> mkdir obj
> cd obj
> ../src/configure blah
>
> this is supposed to avoid absolute pathnames appearing in Makefiles.
> This makes it easy to move the tree around.
> [at least things used to work that way, dunno if this is a documented rule]
Probably just a coincidence that it worked that way. I don't
think a relative srcdir *should* differ from an absolute one.
If you really think it should be that way, it needs to be
written down *somewhere*.
brgds, H-P