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From: Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
To: Jun Leng <jun_leng@brown.edu>
Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Building gcc-8.3.0 into a separate directory from the sources but failed
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:26:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyWVabo0_JJcfNWLfbKE7ATR1ypnNUQYbGCTS4xOnKnTDwxwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A74BE295-E97F-4661-A5C0-3AA61D3F246E@brown.edu>

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:46 PM Jun Leng via Gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
wrote:

> 5 make
> The error is:
> configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make
> distclean" there first
>

If you used git to create the source tree, then using git to clean it is
probably easiest.  Maybe something like
  git clean -f -x -d
assuming that you don't have anything in there that you want to keep.  You
need to get the source tree to the state where git status --ignored shows
no changes.

Or even simpler is to just rm -rf your existing tree and git clone a new
one, and then be careful not to run configure in the source tree again.

I doubt that using make distclean is going to work.

Jim

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-12  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-12  0:46 Jun Leng
2020-11-12  3:26 ` Jim Wilson [this message]
2020-11-12  7:44 ` Kai Ruottu

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