Can't configure in source dir..

[Ben Elliston]

   I did try once, yes and it failed with a different error so I figured
   I did it wrong and reverted to the initial defacto standard way as
   documented in the README.

It says this in the README?  Where?

   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:

It's a Cygnus build convention -- and it's extremely useful in a development
environment, where it's undesirable to litter your source tree with object
files.  Yes, it's a bit unusual, but it's better (IMHO) this way.

Ben