Hi -

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:00:20PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> ok, just to summarize, i grabbed the latest systemtap CVS, and did
>   $ ./configure
>   $ make
> (after installing elfutils-devel, which was the only elfutils-related
> package that was missing on my FC6 system.)

Yes, that was one option.  The other (building a bundled elfutils)
is outlined in src/README.

> now, i'm assuming that if i "make install", that's going to overwrite
> my currently-installed RPMs [...]

No, like most other autoconf/automake based tools, the default
installation prefix is /usr/local, which should coexist fine.
Try "make -n install" and see.

- FChE