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Re: avoid compiling in srcdir [was: [Failure]compiling glibc on MKlinux]
Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@m-tech.ab.ca> writes:
|> Hi!
|>>>>>> Andreas Jaeger writes:
|> AJ> - The current version contains some patches to make the build
|> AJ> process faster. A lot of people complained that it takes too
|> AJ> long to compile glibc and Zack finally managed to make some real
|> AJ> improvements[1]. Sadly this broke one special case: Building in
|> AJ> the source directory. We've always advocated to build glibc in
|> AJ> an extra build directory:
|>>> The `best' way to build glibc is to use an extra directory, e.g.:
|>>> tar xzf libc-970921.tar.gz mkdir build-glibc cd build-glibc
|>>> ../libc-970921/configure ...
|> AJ> This is how we build glibc and therefore should always work.
|> AJ> I'd advise everybody to use a build directory to build glibc -
|> AJ> independent of the version.
|> Why not enforce this policy with software?
Because it is trivial to fix. I have sent a patch to Ulrich.
Andreas.
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