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Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status
- From: Tim Hollebeek <tim at hollebeek dot com>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at doctormoo dot dyndns dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:12:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status
- References: <20020701014139.GA3421@doctormoo.dyndns.org>
- Reply-to: tim at hollebeek dot com
> * To avoid a lot of subtle problems, configure uses absolute pathnames
> for most directories which it puts into the Makefile. This means you
> can no longer 'configure', relocate srcdir or builddir, and then 'make'.
> I doubt that this is important.
It could cause problems with mounted directories, which can have
different names on different machines. E.g. if I do a "make" in
/usr/export/src/gcc and then try to do a "make install" in
/net/src/gcc on a different machine.