gcc4x packages shouldn't build in source directory

Toby Peterson toby at macports.org
Sat Oct 17 16:08:17 PDT 2009


On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 15:55, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
>   I just noticed that MacPorts is building the FSF gcc
> releases within the source tree. The upstream FSF gcc
> developers frown upon this as poor technique. All of the
> gcc4X packages should be creating a separate build directory,
> eg darwin_objdir, outside of the source tree and then
> executing both configure and make from within this
> build directory.

If only we had some sort of system that allowed people to report these
types of issues.

- Toby


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