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Subject: RE: Difficulty building gcc 4.3.2 under i386-pc-cygwin
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:17:16 +0100
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Christopher Faylor wrote on 08 September 2008 22:48:

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:43:37PM +0000, Jay wrote:
>> You can build gcc 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 just fine from the existing Cygwin gcc
>> 3.x package. 
>> 
>> The error also /appeared/ to have the object directory under the source
>> directory.  Don't do that.
> 
> Huh?  There's no reason not to do this.  I do it all of the time.
> 
> cgf

  It is unsupported:

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html

"... building where objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported."

    cheers,
      DaveK
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