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From: Syd Polk <spolk@redhat.com>
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org>,
	Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>
Cc: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Can't configure in source dir..
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20001010135207.00dd5570@pop.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010101632060.742-100000@asdf.capslock.lan>

>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
Engineering Manager	+1 415 777 9810 x 241
Red Hat, Inc.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-10 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-10 12:43 Mike A. Harris
2000-10-10 13:12 ` Ian Roxborough
2000-10-10 13:37   ` Mike A. Harris
2000-10-10 13:51     ` Syd Polk [this message]
2000-10-10 13:55     ` Ben Elliston
2000-10-10 14:04       ` Mike A. Harris
2000-10-10 14:39         ` Ben Elliston
2000-10-10 14:56     ` Tom Tromey
2000-10-10 15:25       ` Mike A. Harris
2000-10-10 13:15 ` Ben Elliston
2000-10-10 13:16 ` Mo DeJong
2000-10-10 13:46   ` Syd Polk
2000-10-10 13:26 William Gacquer
2000-10-10 13:41 ` Mike A. Harris

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