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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.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
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