Can't configure in source dir..

[Syd Polk]

At 01:16 PM 10/10/00 -0700, Mo DeJong wrote:
>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

One major wrinkle is the source RPM's are basically set up to build the app 
in the source tree. It is kind of hard to work around that. We will have to 
solve this problem when we do our RPMs.


Syd Polk		spolk@redhat.com
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Red Hat, Inc.