GNU bug report logs - #11034
Removing 'cygnus' mode in the near future

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From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar <at> spamcop.net>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: gcc <at> gcc.gnu.org, 11034 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, gdb <at> sourceware.org, iant <at> google.com, automake <at> gnu.org, Tom Tromey <tromey <at> redhat.com>, ams <at> gnu.org, binutils <at> sourceware.org, joseph <at> codesourcery.com
Subject: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:22:40 -0400

Quoting Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>:

> By looking at the 'handle_texinfo_helper' function in the automake script,
> I suspect adding a new Automake option 'info-in-builddir' (say) and an
> handful of lines to the automake script might be enough to give you an easy
> way to force the '.info' files to be generated in the builddir.  But before
> doing so, I'd like to understand why you want so strongly to support such
> a setup.

It is quite common during development / testing to build multiple
configurations simultaneously from the same sources, with separate
make processes.  Writing to the source directory would cause disastrous
race conditions.

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