Can't configure in source dir..

[Mo DeJong]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, 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.

Just build it in a build dir:

mkdir build ; cd build
../SN452/configure --prefix=...
make
make install

That should do it.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc