review (S) for 6684007: PrintAssembly plugin not available for linux or windows

[Tom Rodriguez]

I think gcc builds requires you to do the build outside of the source  
tree, which is kind of a nice design and it makes it easy to build all  
the variants from the same image.

tom

On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 00:06, John Rose <John.Rose at sun.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 13, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~never/6684007
>>
>> Reviewed.  Very nice!
>>
>> I'm amazed that $(BINUTILSDIR)/configure does what you want, since  
>> it runs
>> from $(TARGET_DIR) which might be different from BINUTILSDIR, but I  
>> guess it
>> must work.
>
> I think this is/was an important feature for release engineers at
> Cygnus/Red Hat.
> The intent is that any GNU-style configure script works this way, but
> of course not all do.
>
> Martin