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Re: Update autoconf in binutils and ld directories and import ylwrap

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 04:46:18PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > > also binutils build create files in source tree:
> > > 
> > > ? src/binutils/doc/binutils.info
> > > ? src/bfd/doc/bfd.info
> > > ? src/gas/doc/as.info
> > > ? src/gprof/gprof.info
> > 
> > Yes.  Oddly enough this appears to be the convention, and automake
> > wants to do it that way.
> 
>  They are expected to be distributed, so with a release they are already 
> there.  It would be odd to have another copy in the build tree, wouldn't 
> it?

If you're building from a release tarball they shouldn't be rebuilt at all.
I've finally made that work.

Yes, having an old copy in the srcdir and a new copy in the builddir
would be a bit weird.  *shrug*

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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