From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com>
To: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Can't configure in source dir..
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:16:00 -0000
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> I get the following error after untarring the SN source, cd'ing
> into the dir and trying to configure:
> 
> 10 mharris@asdf:~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/SN452-source$ ./configure
> Configuring for a i586-pc-linux-gnu host.
> *** Cannot configure in source tree.
> *** Make a parallel directory and configure there.

Just build it in a build dir:

mkdir build ; cd build
../SN452/configure --prefix=...
make
make install

That should do it.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc