[lfs-dev] Change proposal - move external build directories

[Tushar Teredesai]

On 2016-01-23 00:38, William Harrington wrote:
> On Fri, January 22, 2016 18:54, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> I'm thinking about changing the way we build packages in separate
>> directories.  What we do now for tool chain packages is:
>>
>> mkdir -v ../binutils-build
>> cd ../binutils-build
>>
>> ../binutils-2.25.1/configure  ...
>>
>>
>> I'm thinking about changing that to:
>>
>> mkdir -v build
>> cd       build
>>
>> ../configure ...
> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
>
> "First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory
> from the sources which does not reside within the source tree. This is how
> we generally build GCC; building where srcdir == objdir should still work,
> but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir is a subdirectory
> of srcdir is unsupported."
>
>
An additional reason for settling on ../binutils-build was that the 
source tree can be reused since gcc, binutils and glibc are built 
multiple times (ch 5 and 6).

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