On 1/16/08, Tom Browder <tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to help with a new front end for gcc and have a question > about the configure system: > > I notice that each Makefile generated by configure defines srcdir at > the top as the directory it is formed in (and then sometimes redefines > it later). > > How, then, should one refer to the absolute root of the source tree > regardless of the depth of the Makefile? I should have been a little more specific: The recommended way to build gcc is to use a clean directory outside the source tree somthing like this: mkdir build_dir cd build_dir /path/to/gcc_src/configure <options> I want to know if there is a preferred or defined way to refer to "/path/to/gcc_src" in build scripts or configure inputs since "$(srcdir)" seems to be locally defined per Makefile. Thanks. -Tom
