Re: [Gm2] Building under Solaris 9 on Sparc -- update (mostly good)

[john o goyo]

Greetings:

Michel Derosa wrote:
> Heya John,
>
> In regards to one of the issues with the build-process.
[...]
> Actually srcdir's definition comes from the command used to invoke the
> configure script. so if you called it as:
>
>   /fullpath-to-gcc/configure (eg: /home/john/src/gcc-3.3.5/configure)
>
> then srcdir, in the Makefile, will be set to:
>   /fullpath-to-gcc  (eg: /home/john/src/gcc-3.3.5)

This is essentially what I did.  I had one account for source and several
build accounts (so as to prevent any possible damage to the source).

> However the recommend build process, suggests a hierarchy somewhat like
> this one:
>
>    /somepath/work   (some working directory for building)
>    /somepath/work/gcc-3.3.5   (where the gcc sources are unpacked)
>    /somepath/work/build       (where we will be building gcc).

Hhmmm, the "recommended" process seems to be "required".  #6-)

> And then the build is setup/configured :
>    cd /somepath/work/build
>    ../gcc-3.3.5/configure  (etc..)
>
> The Makefile in build, will now have srcdir set to  ../gcc-3.3.5
> and then all the relative paths in the Makefiles, start to make sense :)

This is now what I do and the paths are correct.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
john

> Ciao!
> Michel De Rosa.