Can't configure in source dir..

[Ian Roxborough]

Have you tried building out side of the the source tree?

E.g.

$ mkdir /home/user/sn/src
$ mkdir /home/user/sn/build
$ cd /home/user/sn/src
$ tar -xvzf ...../<sn-sources>.tar.gz
$ cd /home/user/sn/build
$ ../src/configure --prefix=/home/user/sn/install
$ make all-snavigator
$ make install-snavigator

This should help.

 Ian.

"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> 
> I get the following error after untarring the SN source, cd'ing
> into the dir and trying to configure:
> 
> 10 mharris@asdf:~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/SN452-source$ ./configure
> Configuring for a i586-pc-linux-gnu host.
> *** Cannot configure in source tree.
> *** Make a parallel directory and configure there.
> 
> No matter what directory I put the sources in I get this.  I've
> got 3 copies of the untarred sources right now and it still does
> not configure no matter what.  Looking at the configure script I
> find:
> 
> # Don't allow builds at Cygnus to be done with
> srcdir==builddir.  We
> # can assume srcdir==. in this case, because of code above.
> if test "$srcdir" = .; then
>    echo '***' "Cannot configure in source tree." >&2
>    echo '***' "Make a parallel directory and configure
> there." >&2
>    exit 1
> fi
> 
> Short of removing this line from the script, what is the
> recommended method to build this thing.  ;o)  I just followed the
> instructions in the top level README file and it does not work.
> 
> 10 mharris@asdf:~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/SN452-source$ ./configure
> --prefix=/opt/source-navigator --srcdir=.
> Configuring for a i586-pc-linux-gnu host.
> *** Cannot configure in source tree.
> *** Make a parallel directory and configure there.
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/source-navigator \
>         --srcdir=. --secretdecoderring=~/.decoderrings/sourcenav.ring
> configure: Unrecognized
> option: "--secretdecoderring=/home/mharris/.decoderrings/sourcenav.ring"; use
> --help for usage.
> 
> Is there some problem with compiling this as non-root?  I really
> don't want to have to be root to build packages..  Any ideas?
> 
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