Can't configure in source dir..

[Syd Polk]

>Ouch, my brain hurts.  ;o)  This is the first time I've ever seen
>a package require such an oddball build method.  ;o)  I'll try it
>though.  It might be better to patch the build process than to
>try to come up with a convoluted RPM build method to work around
>it.
>
>Any idea _why_ it does this?  I am almost positive 451 did not
>require this.  Looking at the configure script it appears that it
>is done for some internal cygnus reason..  Is there a:
>
>./configure --Im-not-cygnus-so-dont-do-that

Building for multiple platforms for the same source tree is the reason why 
we build in a separate directory. It looks like I used the wrong version of 
autoconf to generate the configure file; I will investigate a patch soon.

Syd Polk		spolk@redhat.com
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