Re: Can't configure in source dir..

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org>]

On 10 Oct 2000, Tom Tromey wrote:

>Mike> Any idea _why_ it does this?  I am almost positive 451 did not
>Mike> require this.  Looking at the configure script it appears that
>Mike> it is done for some internal cygnus reason..
>
>You can delete that code from the configure script.  It should have
>been removed before making the source available (I think).

Ok, thanks.  I've got it working as is right now, but if I need
to, I'll patch it out for the RPMS.. It seems to work now except
for a small disk space problem I just had.  ;o)

>If you want the full answer, I added that code to configure because in
>some cases -- namely, multilibbed target libraries -- it is not
>possible to configure in the source tree.  These cases do not affect
>S-N.

Ok, thanks.  One more question:

How much disk space does a complete build require?  I had quite a
bit of space and it filled the disk..  


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